Ms Lorraine Walsh:

There are a number of issues, one of which has to do with eligibility for inclusion in the review. I refer to page 14 of the report, No. 3 on which reads: "All slides missing i.e. not retrievable, or slides not available for review having been obtained by a third party at the woman's request." By "All slides missing", is RCOG referring to all slides prior to diagnosis or all slides in general, including the one at the time of diagnosis? A number of women have come to me with concerns regarding their one and only slide prior to diagnosis being unavailable even though their results were classified as being concordant. How could that be possible?