CervicalCheck

€4.76m paid out in legal costs in CervicalCheck claims to date

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’

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’

Practice nurse wrote to minister in 2009 warning of ‘serious consequences’ to Irish women over US laboratory’s reports

Who, what, where and when of this tragedy has been revealed. But no attempt has been made to answer this pressing question: why did it happen?

Investigator reports substantial progress on implementation of recommendations

Report author said he was told some clinicians asked women whether they were members of 221+ before considering treating them

Naomi Linehan, cowriter of Vicky Phelan’s memoir, on their time together and the cancer campaigner’s driving passion: her devotion to her children

State’s savage imperative of self-disclosure meant Phelan had to make her private illness a political matter

Board warned Minister of ‘negative consequences’ of plans to legislate for mandatory open disclosure in medical cases

Death of woman who held the State to account prompts minute silence in Dáil

Dr Gabriel Scally’s concluding progress report into scandal is likely to point to significant work to be done on mandatory disclosure

Commitments made during CervicalCheck controversy have yet to become a reality

Miriam Lord: Vicky’s work is far from done. Others have been inspired. They will do it now in her memory

The love of her family, and the knowledge that she was fighting for others, gave her the strength to keep going

Almost 370 CervicalCheck cases taken in the High Court up to last August

President leads tributes to ‘tireless’ cervical cancer campaigner who has died aged 48

Tricolour flew at half mast on Shannonside as locals hail woman who gave others courage to stand up

Jen Hogan: Vicky always expressed amazement about the kindness she encountered, as if she never quite realised what an inspiration she was

Mark of campaigner’s generosity that she gave so much time to ‘the rest of us and to Irish society’

Ms Bennett, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2017, is survived by her daughters Zoe and Hailee

Liability was contested in the case and the HSE denied the claims made against it

Two hundred women will have to be retested due to delays in processing tests

No point in establishing tribunal to ease pressure on women affected if it is done in a manner that leads many or most to boycott the process

Government working to ensure tribunal is as ‘non-adversarial as possible’, says Donnelly

Reviews tasked with reviewing the management of interval cancers

Dr Lorraine Doherty moving to become HSE’s clinical director for health protection

Results of more than 4,000 smear test not affected by ‘major communications failure’

Morrissey decision sets legal precedent for negligence in screening programmes

High Court hears couple are opposed to getting involved in mediation talks while HSE continued to deny primary liability

Ruth Morrissey continuing action against HSE, two US labs over alleged smears misreading

Mr Justice Kevin Cross said he may be faced with having to hear two actions in one day

CervicalCheck will be contacting affected women by the end of next week, HSE says

Mourners told even when it was too late to change her fate, she helped create new health guidelines

Cork rally hears Emma Mhic Mhathúna must not die in vain

Varadkar says attitude of medical staff ‘knowing best’ goes beyond CervicalCheck

Taoiseach criticises attitudes in the sector and says it contains ‘a degree of misogyny’

Dr Gabriel Scally recommends statutory duty of candour on individuals and organisations