BBC NEWS | Health | Chlamydia testing 'wasting money'

"The National Audit Office said the NHS had duplicated effort and failed to test as many of the under-25 target group in England as it should have.

Last year £17m could have been saved, nearly half the sum spent, if the programme had been better run, it said.

But the government said such an 'ambitious' screening programme was always going to take time to perfect."