Scottish public health minister says women were wrongly told they did not need to be screened for cervical cancer
A woman in Scotland has died from cervical cancer after more than 400 women were wrongly told they did not need to be screened.
Maree Todd, the Scottish public health minister, said a “serious adverse event” in a cervical cancer screening programme meant at least 430 women were not tested. Of those, a small number later developed cervical cancer, and one had since died.
