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
“asked Professor Sir Frank Atherton, previously the chief medical officer in Wales, to conduct an expert review of all the published reports to date”
previously the chief medical officer in Wales · Women's health & gynaecology · 29 Sept 2026 · Southern Health Trust: expert review ordered into cervical screening failures ↗
Where Professor Sir Frank Atherton has been quoted
- Campaign 'far from over' as minister rules out cervical screening inquirybbc.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Southern Health Trust: expert review ordered into cervical screening failureshellorayo.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
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