Hospital offers 'heartfelt apologies' for failings in care of mother dying of cervical cancer

Eileen Rushe’s smear test was read correctly as abnormal but the hospital failed to properly treat her with a certain procedure which counsel said would have been curative

Eileen Rushe at the Four Courts, Dublin. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

A hospital has offered “heartfelt apologies” to a 35-year-old mother with terminal cervical cancer for the failings in her care after she was referred to it for treatment after a smear test.

A letter of apology to Eileen Rushe, the mother of a 14-year-old boy, was read to the High Court today as she settled her action against the HSE.