Dr. Colm Henry:

It is important to note that the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, in its report, notes that the degree of discordance found in its exercise, looking back in an unblinded way, is no different from a much larger exercise carried out in England and Wales on a much greater number of people. This is the only occasion on which we have had such an investigation of the cervical screening in a robust and methodological way in this country.