The ‘mind-boggling’ reason given for why women weren’t told they needed cancer tests (stuff.co.nz)
Women’s health advocates have called the scale of the cervical cancer testing notification failures “staggering”.
Health NZ on the nearly a million missed cervical screening notifications: 'not been budgeted for … no funding available. Only about 20% of recipients were likely to act, so this would not be an efficient use of funding.' They chose money over lives.
