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Some 17,500 women in Northern Ireland will have their Pap smears re-checked after a highly critical report found serious failures over 13 years at a testing laboratory., but most will have their existing slides re-examined over a period of several months.
Although most “negative” results issued by the lab will have been correct, some samples tested during this period would likely be considered “abnormal” by other U.K. labs. An alternative testing process, whereby staff look for HPV before checking samples for abnormal cells, has been rolled out across the rest of the U.K. in a bid to make testing more sensitive and efficient.
Health leaders hope this testing method will help Northern Ireland reduce its significant cervical screening backlog once it’s introduced across the country this December. Southern’s medical director, Dr Stephen Austin, apologised for the lab failures and said the organisation was “very conscious of the anxiety” the report would cause women in the area.
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