CervicalCheck support group calls for HSE change 'from top down' 

Lorraine Walsh with Stephen Teap, who lost his wife Irene to cervical cancer. The CervicalCheck 221+ group is pushing for a culture change to change the system in the future. Picture: Niall Carson/PA

A spokesperson for the CervicalCheck support group 221+ has called for a “culture change” within the HSE “from the top down” in relation to the detection programme.

Lorraine Walsh was responding to apologies and regrets made by the HSE, the minister for health, and CervicalCheck following reports of comments by the service’s clinical director Dr Nóirín Russell.