Dr. Lorraine Doherty:

On restoring confidence, the clear strategy we have adopted is communicating in an enhanced way with patients. Earlier, we heard about the active engagement with patients who have been affected by this programme and women who are involved with it. We also overhauled all the information provided to the public and to women regarding the programme, some of which my colleague Ms Tait described earlier. There is a new website for CervicalCheck with new information for health professionals and patients. The information sent to patients and women in the screening programme has been enhanced and improved greatly to support women in the programme. We hope all of this will help to rebuild confidence in understanding the screening programme and that the programme is still there to provide a service for women. Ultimately, we are working to address the capacity issues around the laboratory and move towards HPV primary screening all of which will be further confidence-building measures for the programme.