FAProfessor Sir Frank Atherton — no licensed photograph is available, so the academic plate is shown instead.

Academic

Professor Sir Frank Atherton

previously the chief medical officer in Wales

Press citations

2

Topic

1

Women's health & gynaecology

Last quoted

Sept 2026

Professor Sir Frank Atherton: key facts

Kind of voice
Academic
Role
previously the chief medical officer in Wales
Quoted on
Women's health & gynaecology
Press citations held
2
Most recently quoted
30 Sept 2026
First quoted
29 Sept 2026

“It is an inherent feature of screening programmes that false negative results will occur and some of these will be attributable to human error.”

What Professor Sir Frank Atherton has said

Where Professor Sir Frank Atherton has been quoted

  1. Campaign 'far from over' as minister rules out cervical screening inquirybbc.com · 30 Sept 2026
  2. Southern Health Trust: expert review ordered into cervical screening failureshellorayo.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026

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