Councillor One of the 'Ladies with Letters' as ABC Council Hits Out at Lack of Public Inquiry over Smear Test 'Scandal'

Councillor one of the 'Ladies with Letters' as ABC Council hits out at lack of public inquiry over smear test 'scandal'

The Health Minister’s decision to rule out a public inquiry into failings in NI’s cervical screening service, which caused great distress to around 17,500 women in the Southern HSC Trust area, was widely criticised by ABC councillors.

Councillor one of ‘Ladies with Letters’ as ABC Council slams cervical screening inquiry snub

A Portadown councillor – and mother of three children – revealed during a heated ABC Council meeting that she was herself one of the “Ladies with Letters” – the group of around 17,500 women in the Southern HSC Trust area whose cervical screening slides had to be rechecked – as councillors widely condemned the Health Minister’s decision to rule out a public inquiry into the failings in Northern Ireland’s cervical screening service. Erin Harbinson…