Re: The real question is...
I wouldn't trust the NHS as far as Prof. Hawking could throw them.
With all due respect, when you're defending the high moral ground (and you were, very well), it's best not to throw it away like that.
And, FWIW, my partner works in PHE on screening programmes. Any expectations that people may have about the omniscience of the NHS should be rapidly dispelled. It's an organisation of people, like any other. It's constrained by resources, but even more so by structures, policies and people, and things go wrong. Frequently. And whilst you may be angry, I can assure you that far more than 270 lives have been lost due to imperfections in screening since 2009. At the local level screening is art, at the national level it is statistics. I really wouldn't use the word "science" for screening, certainly until the accuracy of the techniques available are substantially more accurate than they are.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
