WOMEN are delaying vital cervical cancer screening because bosses are refusing them time off for appointments.
Research reveals 17% have had to take unpaid leave to get tested while 16% threw a sickie.
But a worrying 20% had been putting appointments off until they had annual leave, a survey by Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust reveals.
And astonishingly the NHS was among employers not giving staff time off for screening.
Cervical cancer victim Roisin Sheridan-Owens, 39, of Londonderry, told Jo's: "I was a single mum in a new job and kept putting the test off. I didn't like asking for time off.
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