The woman claimed the hospital failed to correctly report or interpret a cervical smear test taken in 2004. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
A “devastated” mother of three has received an apology from the board of St James’s Hospital over the underreporting of a smear test from 2004 that could have avoided her later diagnosis of cervical cancer.
The woman, who cannot be named by order of the court, had claimed that the hospital was responsible for both the “acts and omissions” of her treatment and accused
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