Enoch Powell failed to introduce tests for cervical cancer | Letter from Sir Harold Evans

Letter from Sir Harold EvansThe thalidomide families are right to protest against any honouring of Enoch Powell (It isn’t just racism that should bar Powell from a blue plaque, Letters, 12 February). As I relate in My Paper Chase, he also would do nothing as minister of health to introduce tests for cervical cancer in the early 1960s.The gynaecologist Mr Stanley Way at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, had proved how thousands of lives would be saved, but he was ignored until w