Consultant says he forgot to give Ruth Morrissey audit results for two years

A consultant who did not inform Ruth Morrissey for nearly two years of the audit results of her smear slides which showed they had been incorrectly reported as negative today told the High Court he forgot to do so.

Consultant obstetrician, Dr Matthew Hewitt said when he met the now terminally ill mother in July 2016 soon after getting the information in a letter from CervicalCheck on the audit results, he forgot about the letter filed in the patient’s notes.