Guidelines for cervical screening await scientific evaluation

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J F Nottingham, Consultant histopathologist.

George Eliot NHS Trust, Nuneaton, Warwickshire CV10 7DJ

EDITOR —In a news item about cervical screening in England1 Wise refers to a report by the National Audit Office.1The office is particularly critical of serious failings in the interpretation of cervical smears in a small number of laboratories. The laboratory at the Hospital of St Cross in Rugby is included among these laboratories. In fact, a massive rescreening exercise at …