Cervical check scandal

The establishment of the CervicalCheck tribunal to process claims by women affected by issues at the State’s cervical cancer screening programme has b(...)

Galway University Hospital has apologised to a woman with cervical cancer for a failure to detect an abnormality in her original smear test. The apo(...)

The clinical director of the embattled CervicalCheck unit has left her job for another position in the Health Service Executive after less than a year(...)

The authors of an independent review of tests made under the CervicalCheck screening programme have defended their work following criticism from patie(...)

Independent reviewers into smear tests carried out by CervicalCheck have expressed concern that “unfounded criticism” of their work could result in “(...)

Patient advocate Lorraine Walsh has said she was “dismissed, ignored, bullied and threatened” by the Department of Health while working as a patient a(...)

The Government has agreed to make a €2,000 ex gratia payment to over 150 more women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy. Minister for Health Si(...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris has denied he displayed “a lack of empathy” with the women impacted by the CervicalCheck scandal who recently learned(...)

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has been accused of “skewing” the results of its review of CervicalCheck by including cas(...)

As a woman and pathologist I heard about concerns regarding CervicalCheck in Ireland with great sadness. I feel so sorry for the women affected and th(...)