Cervical check scandal

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Vicky Phelan: Varadkar “doesn’t inspire me with confidence”. Photograph: Collins Courts
Vicky Phelan: ‘Taoiseach is all talk, no action’ on cervical controversy

Cervical cancer campaigner Vicky Phelan has strongly criticised the Taoiseach over the Government’s response to the needs of cervical cancer patients (...)

Dr Gabriel Scally, who carried out a scoping enquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening programme earlier this year. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Free repeat smear tests to end as HSE deals with backlog

The offer of a free repeat smear test for women concerned following the CervicalCheck controversy will come to and end next week as the HSE continues (...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris: to consider the establishment of an ex-gratia compensatory scheme. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Tribunal to be set up over CervicalCheck controversy

The Government has agreed to set up an independent statutory tribunal to deal with claims arising from the CervicalCheck controversy. Ms Justice Mary(...)

Adrienne Cullen: “By the time my results were found by accident two years later, I had a large tumour, and treatment was too late to cure me. I am now terminally ill.”
Hospitals must face up to medical errors that cost patient’s life

When you are damaged by a hospital, as I was, you are invariably told that what happened was unique to your case. You’re a “one-off”. Lessons have bee(...)

Emma Mhic Mhathuna, the mother of five from Ballydavid, Dingle Co Kerry who died earlier this year as a result of cervical cancer. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien / The Irish Times
Irish Times view on cancer becoming most common cause of death

With cancer overtaking heart disease as the most common cause of death, a significant milestone in Irish public health has been reached. According to (...)

The HSE said it had set up a client services unit in the National Screening Service to “ensure the timely provision of cervical screening records to women or their legal representatives”.
At least 18 affected by CervicalCheck issue still waiting for slides

At least 18 women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy are still waiting to receive their slides back from laboratories, it has emerged. And sol(...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris has asked the Medicines Management Programme to look at putting measures in place to expand access to Pembro. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Access to new drug to be extended to all cervical cancer sufferers

Women with cervical cancer will get access to a potentially life-saving drug under new plans being brought forward by the Minister for Health. “Pemb(...)

Paul and Ruth Morrissey outside the Four Courts in July for the start of their High Court action. Photograph: Collins Courts
Judge says women may die before cancer diagnosis cases heard

A High Court judge has warned that people who have sued over alleged delays in cancer diagnosis and alleged misdiagnosis may die before their cases ar(...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris: “Paternalism” and “offensive nature” of some doctors’ comments to women with cervical cancer, as relayed in the Scally report, resonated with him. File photograph: Nick Bradshaw
CervicalCheck controversy: Lessons must be learned, says Harris

No area of society escapes responsibility for the mistakes made during the CervicalCheck controversy, according to Minister for Health Simon Harris. (...)

While screening for cervical cancer is well established, there is no screening test for endometrial cancer. It can only be diagnosed after a woman develops symptoms. Photograph: Getty Images
A doctor writes: cervical and endometrial cancers are two distinct diseases

It has emerged that one of the 221 women caught up in the CervicalCheck controversy actually had endometrial cancer. Cervical and endometrial cancers (...)

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