Nearly a million women missed cervical cancer screening notifications
A review found Health NZ failed to send almost a million notifications to women due for cervical cancer screening.
A review of the national cervical cancer screening programme has revealed that nearly a million women did not receive notifications that they were due for screening. Health NZ stated there was no indication of harm from the missed alerts, but women's health advocates have criticised the scale of the failure as staggering and called it a significant breach of the programme's safety net.
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Stuff
Secret review finds huge number of women werenât told they needed cervical cancer screening
Hundreds of thousands of women werenât notified they needed to be screened for cancer, Stuff understands.
Stuff
âUndetected harmâ warning after nearly a million cervical cancer screening notifications not sent
Health NZ has released the findings of a review into the cervical cancer screening register.
RNZ
Almost a million cervical cancer screening notifications not sent out, review finds
A review found the national cervical cancer screening programme was not providing a comprehensive safety net.
Otago Daily Times
Almost a million cervical cancer screening notifications not sent out
RNZ
Almost one million missed cervical screening alerts 'a fail', says women's health advocate
Dr Bev Lawton rejected Health NZ's assertion there was no indication of harm despite the missed alerts.
Stuff
The âmind-bogglingâ reason given for why women werenât told they needed cancer tests
Womenâs health advocates have called the scale of the cervical cancer testing notification failures âstaggeringâ.