Appeal Court ruling on screening case will not hit national scheme

An Appeal Court decision that three women with cervical cancer should be compensated after the screening service at Kent and Canterbury Hospital missed abnormal smears is unlikely to have a major impact on the national screening programme, as previously feared.

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