US lab worker defends sending smear test slide to lab not in contract

Dr Ronald Kennedy was giving evidence in the case of Ruth Morrissey who has sued over the alleged misreading of her smear slides by Quest Diagnostics in 2009 and a different laboratory in 2012.

Fri, 15 Mar, 2019 - 17:21

Ann O’Loughlin

The former head of quality assurance at US laboratory Quest Diagnostics defended in the High Court the sending of the smear slides of Irish women for testing to a laboratory allegedly not stipulated in its CervicalCheck contract.

Dr Ronald Kennedy was giving evidence in the case of Ruth Morrissey who has sued over the alleged misreading of her smear slides by Quest Diagnostics in 2009 and a different laboratory in 2012.