# smear-tests - Friday 25 January, 2019
Women are having to wait an average of 22 weeks to receive their results, and thousands of tests need to be redone.
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There is no provision for expediting cases where there is a known history of cancer or abnormal smear results.
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# smear-tests - Thursday 24 January, 2019
The smear-test samples expired after there was a delay in transferring the samples to a slide within the six-week timeframe.
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# smear-tests - Thursday 10 January, 2019
Six months later, the HSE announced that GPs had been told the offer of free repeat smear tests were to end on 31 December.
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# smear-tests - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
“During the Repeal the Eighth campaign you stated that you trusted women… but your behaviour during this debacle suggests otherwise,” one letter said.
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# smear-tests - Tuesday 8 January, 2019
The letter says that there had been a delayed diagnosis after the results of a smear test taken in June were received in October.
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# smear-tests - Sunday 30 December, 2018
19 women wrote to the then-Minister for Women’s Affairs and Family Law about the issue, State Papers reveal.
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# smear-tests - Thursday 6 December, 2018
Free repeat smear tests will end on 31 December.
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# smear-tests - Monday 19 November, 2018
The activist said she is “so privileged” to be included on the BBC’s list.
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# smear-tests - Monday 12 November, 2018
‘Open disclosure’ made headlines in recent months due to the CervicalCheck controversy.
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# smear-tests - Monday 8 October, 2018
Existing contracts with two laboratories are due to expire this month.
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# smear-tests - Wednesday 12 September, 2018
He also said how the families of the women affected were eventually told about the audit was “damaging, hurtful and offensive”.
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# smear-tests - Tuesday 11 September, 2018
“Information continues to be withheld from women and I will continue to fight back.”
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# smear-tests - Wednesday 1 August, 2018
The Limerick woman met the Taoiseach today.
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Julie Dingivan was just 36 when she died last year.
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# smear-tests - Tuesday 31 July, 2018
Leo Varadkar says he is open to the idea of the inquiry into the scandal being held in public.
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Ruth Morrissey has been told her cancer will progress to terminal within a year.
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# smear-tests - Thursday 5 July, 2018
It could be months before the slides are tested.
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# smear-tests - Friday 29 June, 2018
The terminally ill mother-of-five settled her case against the HSE and Quest Diagnostics.
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# smear-tests - Thursday 31 May, 2018
The women in question are afraid, angry and confused, Stephen Donnelly said.
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# smear-tests - Wednesday 16 May, 2018
Vicky said CervicalCheck and her gynaecologist spent 15 months arguing over whose responsibility it was to tell her about a HSE audit.
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# smear-tests - Tuesday 15 May, 2018
Meanwhile, Health Minister Simon Harris has received government approval for the drafting of a Bill to establish an independent board for the HSE.
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# smear-tests - Monday 14 May, 2018
The previous figure was 17 women.
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Professor of Gynaecological Oncology at UCD on why it’s vital for women to continue with the cervical screening programme right now.
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# smear-tests - Thursday 10 May, 2018
Tony O’Brien, Director General of the HSE, has said “anyone who is found to have failed in their duty” will be held to account.
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# smear-tests - Tuesday 8 May, 2018
Irene Teap died last July, her family now know that two of her smears were incorrect.
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A UK expert will lead the inquiry into the CervicalCheck controversy.
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# smear-tests - Thursday 3 May, 2018
The Irish Cancer Society has said its helpline has been inundated with calls from women, some of whom are “extremely distressed”.
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# smear-tests - Wednesday 2 May, 2018
The Taoiseach said the government still do not know all the facts surrounding the CervicalCheck scandal.
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“When there’s cancer in the house, the children are always worrying if everything is okay.”
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# smear-tests - Tuesday 1 May, 2018
The Taoiseach said he could not rule out a commission of investigation into the controversy in the future.
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# smear-tests - Monday 30 April, 2018
Controversy has engulfed CervicalCheck in recent days.
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The case of one woman’s missed cancer diagnosis has become a major scandal for the HSE and government.
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# smear-tests - Monday 21 January, 2013
The Irish Family Planning Association is this week encouraging women between 25 and 60 to go for free cervical smears.
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# smear-tests - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
The National Cancer Screening Service has raised concerns about the low proportion of women aged over 50 who have availed of free screenings for cervical cancer.
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