{"id":52550,"date":"2026-05-14T13:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/public-inquiry-on-cervical-screening-scandal-ruled-out-by-health-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:22:16","slug":"public-inquiry-on-cervical-screening-scandal-ruled-out-by-health-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/public-inquiry-on-cervical-screening-scandal-ruled-out-by-health-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Public inquiry on cervical screening scandal ruled out by health minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">Sir Frank said he heard from impacted women and their partners that a public inquiry was necessary to &#8220;assign accountability&#8221;, and from healthcare officials that an inquiry would be &#8220;time consuming, risk re-traumatisation, further delay resolution, involve significant expense&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp8pzpe3kezo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Frank said he heard from impacted women and their partners that a public inquiry was necessary to &#8220;assign accountability&#8221;, and from healthcare officials that an inquiry would be &#8220;time consuming, risk re-traumatisation, further delay resolution, involve significant expense&#8230;&#8221;. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[2008,2030,504,1830,723,6959,148,10478],"class_list":["post-52550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-cervical","tag-health","tag-inquiry","tag-minister","tag-public","tag-ruled","tag-scandal","tag-screening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52552,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52550\/revisions\/52552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}