Call for probe into CervicalCheck smear test errors ‘secrecy’

The CervicalCheck scandal may involve far more than the 206 women identified by the HSE, the solicitor representing Vicky Phelan has suggested.

Calling for an investigation into an “apparently deliberate policy of not informing” women of false smear test results, Cian O’Carroll said the “wrongdoers” involved must now be identified.

He said if it is confirmed that families of women who have died from a delayed diagnosis of cancer were kept in the dark about the errors that were known, then those responsible “needed to lose their jobs”.