Earlier this month, a woman who found out she had cervical cancer just two months after giving birth to her baby settled a High Court action over her smear tests. The 39-year-old cannot be identified by court order. Along with her husband, she brought proceedings against the HSE, Clinical Pathology Laboratories Inc and MedLab Pathology Ltd. The case revolved around smear tests the woman had in 2011, 2013 and 2014 under the national screening programme, which were later found in a review to have been allegedly inaccurately reported. We don’t know her name. And we don’t know how much the…

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