Ms Lorraine Walsh:

The whole idea of the RCOG review was to look back at slides taken prior to diagnosis. We see that there was a 30% discordance and a 70% concordance. If there were a number of women's slides missing that were deemed concordant, though, then that does not seem right. When I got an answer to that previously, I was told that many of those were called "partial reviews". I have contacted a number of women whose one and only slide prior to their diagnoses were missing about this issue. They said that "partial review" was not mentioned, only that the review was in agreement.