Cervical check scandal

Women may once again have to wait longer to have their smear tests examined under the State’s cervical cancer screening programme following the exit o(...)

Approximately 400 women whose cervical smear test results were delayed for months in the latest cancer screening controversy, have this week received (...)

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister for Health Simon Harris have met cervical cancer campaigners about a formal State apology to the women and familie(...)

The contract awarded to US-based Quest Diagnostics laboratory to deal with the backlog of cervical smear tests was given without proper due diligence (...)

What is the latest problem with CervicalCheck? Essentially, the IT system at the US-based Quest Diagnostics laboratory in Chantilly, Virginia – which(...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris has said he learned only last week of the computer glitch that resulted in hundreds of women not receiving results of(...)

What’s the latest problem with CervicalCheck? It’s primarily a problem (yet again) of failed communication. A computer glitch at a Quest Diagnostics (...)

At least 120 women who were not told of an audit of their smear tests under the CervicalCheck screening programme are to receive ex-gratia payments of(...)

The State Claims Agency has formally appealed the High Court judgment in the Ruth Morrissey case but says its action will have no impact on her €2.1 m(...)

A statement issued by the solicitor of Ruth Morrissey, a terminally ill woman with cervical cancer, has accused the Minister for Health and his depart(...)