Dr. Karin Denton:

The answer to that is mostly not. Many countries are struggling with a fall in uptake, for reasons that are not fully understood. I would add that although the numbers of women having samples are very high at the moment, many of those are women who are taking up the offer of additional tests. We do not necessarily know that they are the ones whose tests were actually due. This programme in particular should be focusing on raising the level of uptake because it is still quite young. If one compares it with the English screening programme, for example, that programme has been running for very much longer and has a whole different calculation around uptake. In a programme that has only been running for ten years, achieving the high uptake is especially important.