CervicalCheck
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Irish Times view on cervical cancer litigation: politics and a failed promise
- Editorial
- July 31, 2018, 00:05
It is not too difficult to understand why Taoiseach Leo Varadkar took it on himself to pledge last May that women involved in the cervical cancer cont(...)

‘Mammy, please don’t die,’ child tells terminally ill mother
- High Court
- July 26, 2018, 20:58
The husband of a Limerick woman who has cancer, and is suing over alleged misinterpretation of her cervical smears, broke down while telling the High(...)

Ireland needs a national strategy for artificial intelligence
- Innovation
- June 28, 2018, 05:30
The cancer-screening controversy resulting from the CervicalCheck debacle has devastated lives. It has also badly damaged the reputation of some healt(...)

After two weeks of political uproar over the CervicalCheck controversy, the Government announced a special package of supports for the women affected (...)

Drip-by-drip unfolding of CervicalCheck scandal ‘not desirable’, says Taoiseach
- Politics
- May 14, 2018
The drip-by-drip way the cervical-cancer-screening scandal continues to unfold is “not desirable”, according to the Taoiseach, who said on Monday that(...)

GPs cautioned that repeat smear tests ‘not clinically indicated’
- Irish News
- May 14, 2018, 01:00
General practitioners have been told by the Health Service Executive that an “urgent new screening test is not clinically indicated” for women concern(...)

Cervical cancer scandal: Husband ‘dragged back into grief’
- Health
- May 13, 2018, 20:12
The husband of one of 17 women who died without being told an audit had found her clear cervical cancer smear test had been misread, said his family h(...)

‘The doctor told me the smear results I got in 2013 were wrong’
- Health
- May 1, 2018, 16:15
Emma Mhic Mhathúna, a 37-year-old mother of five diagnosed with cancer, has said she is one of the women caught up in the cervical cancer screening co(...)

‘It isn’t a helpline, it’s an answering machine’ - women hit out at HSE cancer phone service
- Health
- May 1, 2018, 12:05
Several women have reported frustration with the CervicalCheck helpline, which was set up following the cervical cancer screening scandal. Women look(...)

Rebecca O’Malley: ‘My heart goes out to Vicky Phelan’
- Health
- May 1, 2018, 02:00
Rebecca O’Malley, the woman at the centre of a major breast cancer diagnosis scandal several years ago, has expressed shock at the current cervical ca(...)