Cervical check scandal

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(...)

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(...)

The whole point of the CervicalCheck tribunal was to provide women with a quicker and less adversarial alternative to lengthy and confrontational cou(...)

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has warned women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy that laboratories could walk away from a planned tribu(...)

A support group representing women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy has privately called on the Government to “do better” in addressing growi(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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(...)