A solicitor representing CervicalCheck victims has questioned if halting the smear test audit a year ago was an attempt to “put a lid” on the number of women affected by the scandal. A client of Mr O’Carroll, a Cork mother of two who is terminally ill, yesterday settled her legal action over the alleged misinterpretation of her CervicalCheck smear slide. Mr O’Carroll’s client questioned why her case was not included in the CervicalCheck audit. The HSE said in a statement that the Scally Report had “identified gaps” in hospitals notifying CervicalCheck of cervical cancer cases and that “unfortunately, as a result, the CervicalCheck audit was not aware of many women who had developed cervical cancer”. The HSE said: “As a result, the HSE established an expert group to design the audit process.

Source: Irish Examiner April 05, 2019 04:52 UTC