Patient advocate Lorraine Walsh has said she was “dismissed, ignored, bullied and threatened” by the Department of Health while working as a patient advocate on the CervicalCheck steering committee. Ms Walsh described her treatment on the committee, which was set up to effect improvements in the State’s cervical cancer screening committee, as “horrendous”. Ms Walsh and fellow advocate Stephen Teap both restated their lack of confidence in the RCOG review. Ms Walsh, who has survived cervical cancer, said her own experience of the RCOG review “has not been positive or reassuring”. HSE and RCOG representatives will appear before the committee on Wednesday.

Source: The Irish Times December 17, 2019 21:00 UTC