Emma Mhic Mhathúna, one of the women at the centre of the cervical cancer controversy, died in Kerry yesterday. She had five children and was one of 221 women with cervical cancer found to have been given incorrect test results during a clinical audit by the CervicalCheck screening programme. The scandal led to the Scally report which was a sober account of a profound failure by’s health services. This reopened the controversy around mandatory open disclosure in the health service. Last year, a provision for mandatory open disclosure was in a bill passed by the Seanad, but it was later diluted allowing for voluntary open disclosure, which, of course, is not open disclosure at all.

Source: Irish Examiner October 07, 2018 22:52 UTC