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"We don't know where the slides were read."

This evening on the Hard Shoulder, Stephen Teap,  who lost his wife Irene to cervical cancer, and  went on to co-found of the 221+ patient advocacy group, joined Ivan to give his reaction to the second Scally report being published.

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18.16 11 Jun 2019


"We don't know where the slides were read."


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18.16 11 Jun 2019


A report into labs used during the CervicalCheck controversy has found no evidence they weren't meeting acceptable standards.

Dr. Gabriel Scally's latest review has uncovered 10 further labs involved in screening, which the HSE and the cancer screening programme had no knowledge of.

The report says the use of many of these facilities was not approved in advance by the HSE or CervicalCheck, as was required under the contracts.

Some of the labs where tests were outsourced to are no longer in operation.

 

This evening on the Hard Shoulder, Stephen Teap,  who lost his wife Irene to cervical cancer, and  went on to co-found of the 221+ patient advocacy group, joined Ivan to give his reaction to today's publication.


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