Dr. Peter McKenna:

It has been said that women have lost confidence in the programme but generally speaking when people lose confidence in a programme, for example, a programme for a vaccination, they stop coming in. Exactly the opposite has happened here. While there is undoubtedly is much concern, it is overstating it to say that women have lost confidence. They are appearing. They understand the message and that currently this is the only way we have of detecting cervical cancer. I do not subscribe to the notion that people have totally lost confidence in this. Of course, it could be improved.