A new report by Dr Gabriel Scally into the outsourcing of smear tests to Hawaii and Orlando in the US is expected to be considered by the Cabinet on Tuesday. It emerged last year that CervicalCheck and the HSE were unaware that a contracted US lab outsourced Irish smear tests for analysis to other US labs in Texas, Florida, Nevada and as far away as Hawaii. The issue emerged in a report for the Government into the CervicalCheck controversy last year by Dr Scally, a public health doctor. During a visit to CPL in Austin, Texas, Dr Scally’s scoping inquiry was “surprised” to learn that a “significant proportion of tests had in fact been undertaken in “a much smaller facility in San Antonio, Texas”. Stephen Teap, whose wife Irene died from cervical cancer, told RTÉ’s Ray D’Arcy programme on Monday that he hoped a report into the outsourcing would be published after the Cabinet meeting.

Source: The Irish Times June 11, 2019 00:56 UTC