Health Irish patients to benefit from AI screening, says public health expertIreland is preparing to incorporate artificial intelligence into programmes such as BreastCheck, with ‘potentially enormous benefits for patients’
Analysis Fallout from the false narrative of mass negligence in cancer screening process persists International review seeks to prevent a repeat of the sorry Irish experience anywhere else
Health Screening chief says high level of CervicalCheck litigation poses threat to serviceFiona Murphy, the head of the National Screening Service, warns legal costs and liability fears put programmes at risk
Health David Robert Grimes: As dust settles on CervicalCheck scandal, we need to separate fact from mythHard conversations must be had now about the realities of what screening programmes can do, and how we should discuss them in the media
Health Irish lung cancer screening pilot to get underway The pilot will involve targeting more deprived communities where smoking and lung cancer rates tend to be higher
Health CervicalCheck sample testing at Coombe Hospital paused as accreditation revokedThe withdrawal of accreditation is understood to be due to incomplete paperwork and no timeline has been given for sampling to restart
Health HSE chair warned Donnelly that cancer screening plans were ‘misleading’ Proposed amendments to the Patient Safety Bill were criticised by Ciarán Devane as ‘out of line with international best practice’
Health Patient-led screening reviews the right approach, says cancer expert The Patient Safety Bill’s approach has been approved by the oncologist chair of the expert reference group on interval cancers in CervicalCheck