# cervicalcheck - Thursday 26 July, 2018
A Dublin home would mean the mother wouldn’t have to travel to and from Kerry for her cancer treatment.
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# cervicalcheck - Friday 6 July, 2018
Dr Scally said that it had been difficult to obtain information in the format required.
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# cervicalcheck - Thursday 5 July, 2018
Emma last week settled a €7.5 million settlement with the HSE over her incorrect smear test results.
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# cervicalcheck - Friday 29 June, 2018
The terminally ill mother-of-five settled her case against the HSE and Quest Diagnostics.
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# cervicalcheck - Tuesday 26 June, 2018
Phelan said she plans to fund a person to provide cancer patients with access to the latest cancer drug therapies.
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# cervicalcheck - Tuesday 12 June, 2018
Today’s interim report has recommended that women should not encounter any financial obstacles while participating in investigations.
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# cervicalcheck - Thursday 31 May, 2018
The women in question are afraid, angry and confused, Stephen Donnelly said.
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# cervicalcheck - Wednesday 30 May, 2018
Emma Mhic Mhathúna, one of the women diagnosed with terminal cancer, addressed the Dublin protest.
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# cervicalcheck - Friday 18 May, 2018
It was announced earlier this week that 18 women who had been given a misdiagnosis have since died.
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# cervicalcheck - Thursday 17 May, 2018
She said women need to be “placed at the centre of their own care”.
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# cervicalcheck - Wednesday 16 May, 2018
Vicky said CervicalCheck and her gynaecologist spent 15 months arguing over whose responsibility it was to tell her about a HSE audit.
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John Connaghan said women in Ireland had been “understandably frightened and concerned” by what they had read and heard.
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# cervicalcheck - Tuesday 15 May, 2018
Meanwhile, Health Minister Simon Harris has received government approval for the drafting of a Bill to establish an independent board for the HSE.
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The results of the investigation are due by the end of June.
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# cervicalcheck - Monday 14 May, 2018
Grace Rattigan spoke to RTÉ’s Ray D’Arcy about the death of her mother Catherine Reck.
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The previous figure was 17 women.
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Professor of Gynaecological Oncology at UCD on why it’s vital for women to continue with the cervical screening programme right now.
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# cervicalcheck - Saturday 12 May, 2018
Grace Rattigan has told the story of her mother Catherine Reck, who she says could have received treatment earlier.
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# cervicalcheck - Friday 11 May, 2018
O’Brien announced his resignation last night after coming under pressure over the smear test scandal.
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Vicky Phelan accused the former Director General of the HSE of ‘throwing his toys out of the pram’.
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Tony O’Brien has criticised how some TDs conducted themselves at the Public Accounts Committee hearing yesterday.
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# cervicalcheck - Thursday 10 May, 2018
O’Brien had been the head of the health service since July 2013.
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HSE Director General Tony O’Brien has stepped down this evening.
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Emma Mhic Mhathúna is one of the women caught up in the CervicalCheck scandal, and has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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“It is a stain on all our doors, it is a stain on all of us,” Labour’s Alan Kelly told his Dáil colleagues today.
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Tony O’Brien, Director General of the HSE, has said “anyone who is found to have failed in their duty” will be held to account.
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# cervicalcheck - Tuesday 8 May, 2018
Vicky Phelan, whose cervical cancer is now terminal, has called for Tony O’Brien to go.
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A UK expert will lead the inquiry into the CervicalCheck controversy.
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# cervicalcheck - Monday 7 May, 2018
The HSE has returned 2,686 calls to over 7,678 people.
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# cervicalcheck - Friday 4 May, 2018
The number of women affected by the smear test scandal has increased from 208 to 209.
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Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin have called on Tony O’Brien to resign.
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The woman was recently told that her smear test had been reviewed and a different action could have been taken.
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Vicky Phelan received incorrect smear test results in 2011. She was subsequently diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2014.
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# cervicalcheck - Thursday 3 May, 2018
The issue dominated large chunks of Leaders’ Questions today.
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The Irish Cancer Society has said its helpline has been inundated with calls from women, some of whom are “extremely distressed”.
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The accuracy of HPV testing is significantly higher than liquid based cytology testing, which is the testing used now, and is expected to result in fewer women receiving a false negative result.
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# cervicalcheck - Wednesday 2 May, 2018
This question was not definitively answered at today’s Oireachtas committee.
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Legal proceedings against the HSE or laboratories involved in smear tests have commenced in 6 of those cases.
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The Taoiseach said the government still do not know all the facts surrounding the CervicalCheck scandal.
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“When there’s cancer in the house, the children are always worrying if everything is okay.”
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