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Report author Professor Brian MacCraith and HSE chief executive Paul Reid speaking in Dublin following the publication of an independent report into a CervicalCheck IT error. More than 4,000 Irish women have been affected by an IT glitch which led to a failure to inform them of their smear test results, a review into the incident has confirmed.The delays related to a Quest Diagnostics laboratory based at Chantilly in Virginia in the US which processed tests for the Health Service Executive's CervicalCheck programme.In July, Professor Brian MacCraith was asked to examine the series of events that led to the delay in a Rapid Review.Before the review, the predicted number of women affected was 800, five times lower than the actual figure.