Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said that the Government will improve the State’s cervical screening programme following criticism from CervicalCheck campaigner Vicky Phelan. Ms Phelan was one of a number of women whose smear tests were found to be falsely negative for cervical cancer in a 2014 review of smear tests taken under the CervicalCheck screening programme. She called on the Government to set up a steering committee to oversee CervicalCheck, to make changes to the CervicalCheck tribunal and to help Labour leader Alan Kelly in introducing legislation to amend the Civil Liability Act. The campaigner said she was angered that the State and the HSE had failed to apologise to Ruth Morrissey, a fellow CervicalCheck campaigner, before her death last Sunday. “The CervicalCheck tribunal is established in law, but isn’t up and running.

Source: The Irish Times July 26, 2020 15:22 UTC