A progress report on the Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme is due in the coming days.

The Government is monitoring concerns that the future of breast cancer screening could be at risk over legal actions and say that medical litigation in Ireland is currently being reviewed.

Senior Breast Check officials are set to be grilled over the quality of cancer screening services tomorrow morning in the aftermath of the cervical cancer tests scandal and fears the crisis could be wider than initially believed.

Satisfaction with the Government has dropped by 7% in the past month to 37%.

Latest: Health Minister Simon Harris has said he hopes to establish tomorrow if all those affected by the cervical smear controversy have been informed.

It is unrealistic to expect an organisation with 67,000 direct employees, and a further 35,000 people employed by agencies that organisation funds, to be error free.

What a disgustingly cruel country this can be.

A simple screening programme that has detected 11,000 potentially fatal aneurysms in men in the UK is being rolled out across five GP practices in Cork.

Two and half thousand women are diagnosed with breast cancer in Ireland every year.

Airlines are opposed to screening passengers just before they enter an airport, with such steps — widely proposed after the March 22 bombings in Brussels — likely to increase waiting times and prove ineffective in preventing attacks, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said at its annual conference in Dublin yesterday.

Combining two powerful breast cancer drugs could dramatically shrink or destroy tumours in just 11 days, British doctors have discovered.

The Renua Ireland leader Lucinda Creighton has called for the screening of refugees coming into Ireland, after a poll showed that 60% of people think terrorists could be coming with them.