Woman with up to six months left to live settles action and gets apology from HSE over smear test audit

The HSE and the Cervical Check Programme today apologised in the High Court to a mother of two who is seriously ill with cancer and who had sued over a smear test.

A “sincere and unreserved apology” was made for “the failure by the Cervical Check Programme to communicate with the woman in “a timely and appropriate way” the results of an audit that indicated a change in the interpretation of her original smear test.