You’ll have seen and heard that cervical cancer survivor and patient advocate Lorraine Walsh quit the steering committee set up to oversee changes in the Cervical Check programme.

She was one of the 221 women whose smear tests were read incorrectly and developed cervical cancer.

It was after the findings of a review of over 1,000 slides found that CervicalCheck missed an opportunity to identify cervical cancer in 159 women - 12 of whom later died.

Anthony Staines is Professor of Health Systems at the School of Nursing in DCU, and he explained all to Ivan.