Tests will be rechecked and some tests taken again as part of a review dating back to 2008 as a ‘precautionary measure’

The public servant who managed Ireland’s Covid crisis now occupies himself with a few part-time or honorary roles

Medlab Pathology directors state that the company no longer trades and its main business is to manage the liabilities arising from litigation

Cian O’Carroll, Ms Phelan’s lawyer, says patients would prefer quality medical care to damages

Cervical cancer screening programme facing €300m in claims, against an annual budget of €34m, says WHO

Medlab Pathology sued in High Court by a number of women over alleged failings between 2011 and 2019

Woman (59) is gravely ill and only has ‘a matter of days’ before she dies, court hears

Warning to new HSE chief of threat to future of cancer screening services

Difficulty recruiting staff to work in an environment where they will be processing a high volume of tests while running the risk of being sued

CervicalCheck: Coombe lab forced to outsource cervical cancer screening work to the US due to non-compliance issue

Ex-Nphet member Cormican ‘didn’t set out to open a can of worms’ with recent criticisms of pandemic response

Campaigners describe Wednesday as ‘a very proud day but also a very sad day’

The legislation makes it mandatory for patients to be informed of their right to patient-requested reviews following representations from the 221+ support group

Woman settled a separate personal injuries case for €450,000 over alleged misreading of her sample

Paul Cullen talks to the head of the NCSL, Ireland’s new dedicated cervical screening lab, built so that Irish women’s samples no longer need to be sent abroad.

The woman’s lawyers said 'two missed opportunities have had devastating consequences'

Doctor who led inquiry into CervicalCheck scandal says current testing systems are as ‘good as can be’

High Court judge says facts of the case taken by relatives of late Irene against labs and HSE ‘dark and disturbing’

Irene Teap died aged 35 in July 2017 from cervical cancer after abnormalities in her smear tests were not reported

Minister says ‘we don’t normally legislate at that level’ but ‘there’s a particular unique context to this in Ireland’