At the end of 2022, the National Cervical Screening Laboratory opened to great fanfare –  a major €20 million investment in screening services in Ireland. The publicly-owned flagship facility at the Coombe Hospital, operated by the National Screening Service, has state-of-the-art testing, screening, training, and research facilities.  It was set up in the wake of the CervicalCheck screening controversy, where hundreds of women were not informed about misread smear test audits. Deficiencies in sample outsourcing were partly to blame.  The lab’s establishment was a key recommendation in Dr Gabriel Scally’s scoping inquiry into the screening programme in the wake of the…

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