Cervical Cancer Screening | Scottish Parliament debates
We are now in 2024, and we know that at least one woman has died as a result. Let me tell members about Christine from Fife. She received a letter on 3 December 2023 saying that she had had only a partial hysterectomy and that she had been wrongly excluded from the cervical screening programme […]
Cervical Cancer Screening | Scottish Parliament debates
The minister’s response is wholly inadequate. You are not serious about this. You promised the women that they would have letters in August 2021.
Cervical Cancer Screening | Scottish Parliament debates
The problem of women being excluded from the cervical screening programme was first reported to the Parliament in June 2021. The minister at the time, Maree Todd, told the chamber that the cases of 1,500 women who had had partial hysterectomies since 1997 were being reviewed. When asked about women who had had partial hysterectomies […]
Cervical Cancer Screening | Scottish Parliament debates
2. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the reported recall of 150,000 women who were wrongly excluded from cervical cancer screening since 1997. (S6T-01788)
