Cervical check scandal
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CervicalCheck director warns on viability of screening programmes
- Health
- December 10, 2020, 20:14
Cancer screening will no longer be viable if the total cost of related court payouts exceeds the cost of running the programmes, the clinical director(...)

CervicalCheck tribunal starts work and is accepting claims from women
- Politics
- December 1, 2020, 13:23
The CervicalCheck tribunal has started its work today and is accepting claims from affected women for the first time. A decision was made at the week(...)

How relations between Government and CervicalCheck women disintegrated
- Politics
- November 23, 2020, 06:00
The whole point of the CervicalCheck tribunal was to provide women with a quicker and less adversarial alternative to lengthy and confrontational cou(...)

Minister warns campaigners labs could walk away from CervicalCheck tribunal
- Health
- November 19, 2020, 01:02
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has warned women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy that laboratories could walk away from a planned tribu(...)

Government urged to ‘do better’ in creation of CervicalCheck tribunal
- Politics
- November 10, 2020, 02:37
A support group representing women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy has privately called on the Government to “do better” in addressing growi(...)

Almost 400 entitled to cervical cancer case review, report author says
- Health
- November 9, 2020, 02:50
Almost 400 women who have contracted cervical cancer will be entitled to a review by the CervicalCheck programme of their cases, according to the auth(...)

CervicalCheck Tribunal postponed over victims’ concerns
- Health
- October 27, 2020, 00:17
The CervicalCheck Tribunal, which was due to start its work on Tuesday, has been postponed for “a number of days”, the Government said on Monday night(...)

The Irish Times view on CervicalCheck tribunal: The need for an agreed outcome
- Editorial
- October 26, 2020, 19:30
At the heart of the CervicalCheck screening controversy were two issues: allegations that smear tests had been negligently read in some cases; and a f(...)

Green Party raises ‘serious concerns’ around CervicalCheck tribunal
- Politics
- October 26, 2020, 00:43
The Green Party has raised “serious concerns” around the CervicalCheck tribunal which is due to start its work on Tuesday. A party source confirmed t(...)

Kathy Sheridan: We should be more scared of cervical cancer than Covid
- Opinion
- October 14, 2020, 01:00
Somewhere in Ireland today a woman will learn that she has cervical cancer. Two women will probably die from it this week. The names of those who have(...)