Limerick mum-of-two Vicky Phelan outside Government Buildings earlier this month
Niamh Cahill, in The Irish Times, reports:
Hundreds of smear tests performed on women in the CervicalCheck screening programme could not be read this year due to delays in processing them, new figures show.
The sharp rise in expired samples is linked to a surge in women seeking repeat smears following controversy over the programme since Vicky Phelan settled her court case last April.
…the number of smears performed in CervicalCheck jumped by more than 50 per cent between July 2017 and July 2018.
In July this year, more than 27,200 smears were taken via the programme, compared to 18,700 in the same month in 2017.
…The data compiled by CervicalCheck on August 22nd reveals that 110 smear tests taken in July 2018 could not be read, as the samples had expired, a four-fold rise compared to the 27 expired samples recorded in July 2017.
Of the 110 tests, 87 had expired because they were not processed by a laboratory in a timely fashion. The remainder were expired vials from GPs.
Hundreds of cervical smears go out of date (Niamh Cahill, The Irish Times)
Previously: Numbers Remain Steady
And the Boy Harris spends his time petting dogs.
In fairness it’s what a child should be doing… not fronting a 15billion euro Health budget with absolutely zero real world experience… has he ever had a job outside of politics or is he like that other waste of space Eoghan Murphy who did an internship before being elevated to a senior ministerial position. I mean it’s beyond me why anyone thinks that both COULD be capable of the mammoth task that faces sorting these problems in housing and health.
Imagine we promoted interns to CEO positions in major job providing companies in this country. Imagine your job depended on them succeeding. It’s so ridiculous that it would never be done. in the real world…. However in the land of La La in Leinster House that’s exactly what they did.
Of course it was always going to be a monumental fockkk up.
“The remainder were expired vials from GPs.”
I hope those GPs got reported to the Medical Council.