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#cervicalcheck

CervicalCheck: How does Ireland's cervical smear screening programme work?

Sun 6:30 AM 8,659 2

#CERVICALCHECK
Lorraine Walsh resigns from CervicalCheck steering group, says she doesn't have confidence in report

Dec 4th 2019, 7:54 AM 10,777 15

#221+
Health Minister Simon Harris says limitations of smear screening is a 'difficult, painful reality'

Updated Dec 3rd 2019, 5:49 PM 10,666 3

#RCOG REVIEW
'Overly cautious' reading of smear tests would be damaging and bring an end to screening programmes

Nov 10th 2019, 1:23 PM 14,881 31

#CERVICALCHECK
'A lack of respect': Vicky Phelan hits out at TDs who didn't attend formal Dáil apology

Oct 23rd 2019, 4:31 PM 38,545 55

#CERVICALCHECK
Poll: Does a formal apology from the government make a difference?

Oct 23rd 2019, 9:20 AM 19,771 45

#YOUR SAY
Taoiseach makes formal apology to women affected by failures in CervicalCheck programme

Oct 22nd 2019, 3:44 PM 7,138 30

#CERVICALCHECK
Taoiseach to deliver State apology to women affected by CervicalCheck scandal

Oct 22nd 2019, 9:09 AM 9,135 16

#CERVICALCHECK
Cervical cancer campaigner Emma Mhic Mhathuna to be honoured on first anniversary

Oct 4th 2019, 3:24 PM 34,853 7

#FLOWERS FOR EMMA
CervicalCheck scandal: Woman granted leave to serve personal injuries summons on US clinic

Aug 14th 2019, 3:12 PM 8,320 5

#TEXAS
New test could make it easier to predict women's risk of developing cervical cancer

Aug 12th 2019, 6:10 AM 9,876 12

#HPV
State apology on the cards after Varadkar and Harris meet CervicalCheck support group

Aug 7th 2019, 5:17 PM 8,899 56

#ACCOUNTABILITY
'Rude', 'didn't care', 'absence of customer service': One woman's experience of CervicalCheck delays

Aug 7th 2019, 12:05 AM 32,037 15

#SHARON'S STORY
Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal against judgement in Ruth Morrissey case

Jul 26th 2019, 5:24 PM 8,577 7

#CERVICALCHECK
CervicalCheck scandal: HSE says 434 smears expired before testing

Jul 24th 2019, 2:23 PM 5,772 10

#SCREENING
Court cases, a smear test backlog and now an 'IT issue' - 15 months of the CervicalCheck scandal

Jul 17th 2019, 6:15 AM 7,368 18

#CERVICALCHECK
CervicalCheck backlog leaves women waiting months for abnormal cervix assessment

Jul 14th 2019, 7:30 AM 6,459 13

#COLPOSCOPY
HSE orders 'rapid review' after 800 women failed to receive their smear test

Updated Jul 12th 2019, 9:20 PM 21,811 50

#CERVICALCHECK
CervicalCheck smear results weren't sent to some women due to IT glitch at US lab

Jul 11th 2019, 9:14 PM 9,588 23

#WAITING LIST
Scally: Price for cervical screening tender 'became a much more important factor' than quality

Jul 4th 2019, 6:28 PM 8,503 20

#CERVICALCHECK
'She wants it to be over': Ruth Morrissey 'very upset' over State move to appeal CervicalCheck case

Jun 17th 2019, 2:00 PM 13,702 27

#CERVICALCHECK
Simon Harris says he'll look to protect Ruth Morrissey award in any appeal of her court case

Jun 16th 2019, 1:13 PM 18,696 37

#CERVICALCHECK
Varadkar says outsourcing of cervical smears is 'serious' and may be 'a breach of contract'

Updated Jun 12th 2019, 6:42 PM 15,712 39

#CERVICALCHECK
'Lack of transparency to Irish women was entirely unacceptable': Report finds smear tests were sent to 16 labs

Jun 11th 2019, 3:21 PM 9,094 11

#CERVICALCHECK SCANDAL
'Raw and needless cruelty': CervicalCheck cases 'a no-win situation' for all involved

May 4th 2019, 7:15 AM 7,811 6

#CERVICALCHECK
Ruth Morrissey: 'I want to move on and spend whatever time I've left with my daughter'

Updated May 3rd 2019, 12:49 PM 65,499 41

#CERVICALCHECK
Vicky Phelan apologises to Leo Varadkar after referring to him as 'a gay man' during criticism

Apr 25th 2019, 3:22 PM 75,895 83

#BACKTRACK
Simon Harris stands over his decision to offer repeat smear tests, despite being warned about delays

Updated Apr 10th 2019, 6:27 PM 17,423 49

#CERVICALCHECK
Woman with terminal cancer settles smear test case for €2.5 million

Updated Apr 4th 2019, 10:30 PM 16,938 22

#CERVICALCHECK
Former CervicalCheck boss says Harris was warned that offering extra smear tests could cause delays

Updated Apr 3rd 2019, 12:59 PM 21,141 56

#BACKLOG
CervicalCheck: It has cost €9.6m to give free repeat smear tests to women

Mar 28th 2019, 5:07 PM 5,704 12

#OUT OF CYCLE SMEARS
Of 4,500 repeat smear tests that expired, 2,500 have been retested

Mar 27th 2019, 5:46 PM 6,180 11

#CERVICALCHECK
'Deeply flawed' policy on open disclosure in the HSE still in place, Scally review finds

Mar 22nd 2019, 10:28 AM 8,647 6

#CERVICALCHECK
Clare TD Michael Harty: 'I took a different view from my rural colleagues on the drink driving laws'

Mar 18th 2019, 8:00 AM 23,813 12

#INDEPENDENT TD
CervicalCheck ex-gratia payments scheme to be set up 'in the coming weeks'

Mar 11th 2019, 7:35 PM 9,263 19

#DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
'I need to prioritise my health': Vicky Phelan to take step back from CervicalCheck campaigning

Feb 20th 2019, 2:06 PM 25,663 20

#CERVICALCHECK
Harris asks HSE to introduce HPV testing 'as soon as possible' as roll out is pushed out due to smear test backlog

Updated Feb 13th 2019, 6:13 PM 10,681 20

#CERVICALCHECK
'It would be foolhardy to say there is no risk': HSE reveals 78,000 slides left in CervicalCheck backlog

Updated Feb 13th 2019, 12:03 PM 14,837 34

#WOMEN'S HEALTH
Tony O'Brien accuses the PAC of 'chasing every passing controversy... it doesn't add any value'

Feb 9th 2019, 12:01 PM 18,232 69

#CERVICALCHECK
CervicalCheck writes to 4,300 women affected by lab error offering them repeat smear test

Feb 8th 2019, 12:05 AM 13,227 9

#CERVICALCHECK