«Breaking News» 'Meltdown' in cervical screening as women could be forced to wait months for results

Women could be forced to wait months for smear test results as the planned closure of dozens of screening laboratories sends the service into ‘meltdown’, experts claim.

A Government campaign encouraging women to get the life-saving checks has coincided with the decision to shut 41 NHS testing labs. 

Dozens of staff have left their posts ahead of the reduction in the number of facilities from 50 to nine, leading to a ‘shambolic’ backlog of samples waiting to be tested.

Dozens of staff have left their posts ahead of the reduction in the number of facilities from 50 to nine, leading to a ‘shambolic’ backlog of samples waiting to be tested

Dr Alison Cropper, chairman of the British Association for Cytopathology, said: ‘The service is in meltdown’.

She warned that women face an agonising wait for smear test results, which are meant to be sent within 14 days.

There has been a surge in uptake for smear tests since Public Health England launched its first cervical cancer awareness campaign in January.

Figures revealed screening rates were at an all-time low, a trend blamed on ‘body image’ embarrassment. But Dr Cropper said the Government campaign was launched at ‘the worst time there could possibly have been’.

It is the latest in a string of embarrassments for the NHS screening programmes following blunders which meant hundreds of thousands were not invited for breast or cervical screening.

The Daily Mail has highlighted the tragic case of Julie O’Connor, 49, an NHS nurse who died last month after being wrongly told six times by Southmead Hospital in Bristol that she did not have cancer.

 

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