Ms Fiona Murphy:

About 15% to 20% of our women do not attend for screening when they are invited. We have now created a system where we send a text message reminder to encourage them to attend and to tell us if they cannot show up because they are busy that day, for example, and if they wish to change their appointment, that is no problem. We also encourage women to let us know if they are not going to show up because in the past we did not always know that was going to be the case and appointments would have gone to waste. We are now offering those appointments to other people.