Professor Ann O'Doherty:

What I am trying to say is that we have lost ground in screening and symptomatic services. Our focus has been to save the maximum number of lives possible, which has meant getting the symptomatic women done. Under normal circumstances, we would never have used screening resources to deal with symptomatic women. Even if I was given a huge amount of money tomorrow, the trained staff are just not out there. It takes 14 years to train a radiologist and six years to train a mammographer. We were not expecting Covid-19, so we have lost ground and I cannot pretend that we have not. It is not a resource issue centred on money, however. It is a resource issue regarding personnel.