CervicalCheck boss: Inform just three of 10 women

The former head of CervicalCheck recommended just three of 10 women with cervical cancer whose cases she reviewed be informed that they were part of a smear audit.

The women, from the midwest, were being treated at the colposcopy clinic at University Maternity Hospital Limerick (UMHL).

Their charts were forwarded to Gráinne Flannelly, then clinical director of CervicalCheck, by Kevin Hickey, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at UMHL.