Dail Public Accounts Committee
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CervicalCheck erred in ‘not closing loop’ with patients
- Irish News
- May 17, 2018, 20:44
CervicalCheck committed an “error in not closing out the loop” when it failed to inform women about a clinical audit showing incorrect false negative (...)

CervicalCheck took two years to draft leaflet following false tests, documents show
- Health
- May 17, 2018, 18:16
CervicalCheck was drafting a leaflet as late as March 2018 that it planned to send to women with cervical cancer to see if they wanted the option of r(...)

The acting head of the health service has told terminally-ill Limerick woman Vicky Phelan who brought the CervicalCheck controversy to light that he i(...)

Doctors treating women with cervical cancer told CervicalCheck in September 2017 that they were being “put at a disadvantage” in deciding who should o(...)

Senior officials told women would get audit results – HSE
- Irish News
- May 15, 2018, 00:18
Senior health service personnel who received briefings from the CervicalCheck screening programme were told women would receive information from their(...)

Cervical cancer campaigners welcome resignation of Tony O’Brien
- Irish News
- May 11, 2018, 01:00
The resignation of Tony O’Brien as director general of the Health Service Executive has been welcomed by two women who were given incorrect smear test(...)

Briefing memo on cervical audits ‘devastating’, ‘damning’
- Irish News
- May 10, 2018, 21:26
Memos provided to the departing head of the HSE on the background to the cervical screening audits are “devastating” and show that a strategy of conta(...)

O’Brien told in 2016 audit results were to be given to patients
- Health
- May 10, 2018, 12:52
HSE chief Tony O’Brien has said he was told in 2016 that the results of audit findings in relation to who developed cervical cancer were to be communi(...)

Supreme Court to hear Denis O’Brien appeal over Dáil statements on Monday
- Supreme Court
- April 20, 2018, 11:07
Businessman Denis O’Brien’s appeal against the dismissal of his action against the Dáil and State, over statements made by two TDs in the Dáil about h(...)

Angela Kerins case raises ‘important and difficult’ issues: Chief Justice
- Supreme Court
- March 16, 2018, 18:02
The Constitution gives no immunity to parliamentary committees that unjustly attack the personal rights of a citizen, as was done to former Rehab CEO (...)