Stephanie O Keeffe
15 results

Cancer scandal: Another day of shock over treatment
- Health
- May 18, 2018, 06:00
More shock, more indignation, more disbelief – another day, another Oireachtas committee hearing into missed smear tests that should have flagged canc(...)

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 (...)

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(...)

No Ministers were informed about delays in telling women the results of cervical cancer screening audits, the Department of Health chief medical offic(...)

Government faces clash with committee over parallel cancer inquiry
- Irish News
- May 14, 2018, 01:00
The Government is on a collision course with the Public Accounts Committee over PAC plans to proceed with its own inquiries into the CervicalCheck sca(...)

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(...)

Why we’ll be signing the dotted line when the HPV immunisation form arrives
- Health
- August 31, 2017, 01:00
Next month, along with the parents of more than 30,000 other girls who have just started secondary school, our family will be faced with a decision – (...)

Minister tells HPV vaccine opponents to ‘butt out’
- Health
- August 30, 2017, 10:57
Minister for Health Simon Harris has told groups he claims are “scaremongering” about the HPV vaccine to “butt out” of providing medical advice . Mr (...)

Alcohol Bill may return to Seanad before summer
- Health
- March 8, 2017, 01:00
A controversial alcohol Bill which will introduce minimum unit pricing and curtains over drinks displays in shops could return to the Seanad for deba(...)

Will a new contract with GPs ease hospital overcrowding?
- Health
- January 8, 2017, 19:41
Talks on the establishment of a new contract between GPs and the Government are to commence within the next fortnight, it has emerged. Medical organ(...)