We should never have heard of Vicky Phelan or Ruth Morrissey or any of the other women affected by the cervical cancer scandal. At least not for being young women and mothers and terminally ill with cervical cancer. Because a system that was supposed to protect them...
Niamh Ní Mhurchú is Joint Managing Partner at Callan Tansey Solicitors, an experienced Medical Neglignece specialist and a mother of four children. Here she discusses the importance of listening to new mothers, hearing about their birth experience, and learning from...
A recent study has found that women’s health concerns are often blamed on emotion, stress, age, hormones and even their imagination. This gender bias and ‘medical gaslighting’ is leading to delayed and missed diagnosis for women across Ireland. Orlagh Sharkey, Senior...
A woman in her early forties with a terminal cancer diagnosis had her legal action settled in the High Court recently. The mother of four claimed her cervical smear test was negligently misread which lead to a delayed cervical cancer diagnosis. HSE Planned to Fully...
The restrictions on fathers attending at maternity hospitals due to Covid-19 restrictions has once again highlighted how the needs and requirements of women while pregnant and giving birth are often overlooked, ignored and unheard. In Ireland conversations on the...
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