CervicalCheck

Thousands of lives have been saved

Cervical cancer screening programme facing €300m in claims, against an annual budget of €34m, says WHO

Medlab Pathology sued in High Court by a number of women over alleged failings between 2011 and 2019

HSE and labs declined a plea last week to preserve access to general damages after death if action succeeds

Woman (59) is gravely ill and only has ‘a matter of days’ before she dies, court hears

Difficulty recruiting staff to work in an environment where they will be processing a high volume of tests while running the risk of being sued

From Wednesday all Irish samples are again being sent to the US for processing

CervicalCheck: Coombe lab forced to outsource cervical cancer screening work to the US due to non-compliance issue

The legislation makes it mandatory for patients to be informed of their right to patient-requested reviews following representations from the 221+ support group

Paul Cullen talks to the head of the NCSL, Ireland’s new dedicated cervical screening lab, built so that Irish women’s samples no longer need to be sent abroad.

New National Cervical Screening Laboratory plans to process all CervicalCheck slides within five years

€4.76m paid out in legal costs in CervicalCheck claims to date

The woman’s lawyers said 'two missed opportunities have had devastating consequences'

Doctor who led inquiry into CervicalCheck scandal says current testing systems are as ‘good as can be’

Irene Teap died aged 35 in July 2017 from cervical cancer after abnormalities in her smear tests were not reported

Minister says ‘we don’t normally legislate at that level’ but ‘there’s a particular unique context to this in Ireland’

Practice nurse wrote to minister in 2009 warning of ‘serious consequences’ to Irish women over US laboratory’s reports

Who, what, where and when of this tragedy has been revealed. But no attempt has been made to answer this pressing question: why did it happen?

Investigator reports substantial progress on implementation of recommendations

Report author said he was told some clinicians asked women whether they were members of 221+ before considering treating them

State’s savage imperative of self-disclosure meant Phelan had to make her private illness a political matter

Naomi Linehan, cowriter of Vicky Phelan’s memoir, on their time together and the cancer campaigner’s driving passion: her devotion to her children

Board warned Minister of ‘negative consequences’ of plans to legislate for mandatory open disclosure in medical cases

Death of woman who held the State to account prompts minute silence in Dáil

Commitments made during CervicalCheck controversy have yet to become a reality

Dr Gabriel Scally’s concluding progress report into scandal is likely to point to significant work to be done on mandatory disclosure

Miriam Lord: Vicky’s work is far from done. Others have been inspired. They will do it now in her memory

The love of her family, and the knowledge that she was fighting for others, gave her the strength to keep going

Almost 370 CervicalCheck cases taken in the High Court up to last August

President leads tributes to ‘tireless’ cervical cancer campaigner who has died aged 48

Tricolour flew at half mast on Shannonside as locals hail woman who gave others courage to stand up

Jen Hogan: Vicky always expressed amazement about the kindness she encountered, as if she never quite realised what an inspiration she was

Mark of campaigner’s generosity that she gave so much time to ‘the rest of us and to Irish society’

Ms Bennett, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2017, is survived by her daughters Zoe and Hailee

Liability was contested in the case and the HSE denied the claims made against it

Two hundred women will have to be retested due to delays in processing tests

No point in establishing tribunal to ease pressure on women affected if it is done in a manner that leads many or most to boycott the process

Government working to ensure tribunal is as ‘non-adversarial as possible’, says Donnelly

Reviews tasked with reviewing the management of interval cancers

Dr Lorraine Doherty moving to become HSE’s clinical director for health protection