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The Hard Shoulder Highlights with Kieran Cuddihy on Newstalk. Join Kieran every weekday afternoon from 4-7pm for a round-up of the day’s events, interviews with the people at the centre of the stories – and a bit of craic along the way. Listen and subscribe to The Hard Shoulder on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.    You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

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Differences between the original slides and the report are the "nature of the test"...

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.