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Professor Nóirín Russell
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Clinical Director #CervicalCheck. Obstetrician & Gynaecologist.Wife of superhero.Mother of 3 foodies. Rebel. Optimist.Gaeilgeoir. Francophile
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Professor Nóirín Russell @russelln.bsky.social · Jan 20
Are you eligible for #cervicalscreening?
Here's what you need to know about checking the #CervicalCheck register, how long your test takes, and when you’ll get your results.
👉 tinyurl.com/7-things-cer...
#ChooseScreening #CervicalCancerPreventionWeek
When are you due? 7 things you should know about cervical screening in Ireland
CervicalCheck is the HSE’s free national cervical screening programme.
tinyurl.com
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pregnancylossie.bsky.social
Researchers from the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh are looking into the use of progesterone for early pregnancy bleeding in Scotland

www.abdn.ac.uk/news/24539/
New study investigates miscarriage prevention guidance
Researchers from the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh are looking into the use of progesterone for early pregnancy bleeding in Scotland.
www.abdn.ac.uk
July 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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nsshse.bsky.social
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Read the full CervicalCheck Programme Report 2022–2023 here:

🔗 tinyurl.com/cc-report-20...

#ChooseScreening #CervicalCheck #PublicHealth #CervicalCancer #TogetherTowardsElimination #CervicalCancerElimination
CervicalCheck programme report 2022-2023 shows increasing coverage as more women choose screening
We’ve published our CervicalCheck programme report 2022-2023.
tinyurl.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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📣 Prof @russelln.bsky.social, #CervicalCheck Clinical Director:
“Cervical screening is a vital tool in preventing cervical cancer. Early detection saves lives. We’ll keep working to help more women choose screening — and help make cervical cancer rare in Ireland.”

#ChooseScreening
July 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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nsshse.bsky.social
We're delighted to have won best poster at the #BSCCP2025 conference.

Pictured is lead author Micheál Rourke, #CervicalCheck data analyst, with the winning poster - An analysis of screening results of first screened CervicalCheck attendees aged 63-69 and regular screened attendees aged 60-65.
Images show Micheál Rourke standing on the right of the picture beside his winning poster presentation.
June 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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nsshse.bsky.social
We were proud to join international delegates at #ICSN2025 recently to share research and learning on cancer screening.

Read all about it: tinyurl.com/nss-icsn2025

We're looking forward to welcoming the global screening community to Dublin in 2027.

#ICSN2027 #ChooseScreening
Innovation, equity and shared learning: ICSN conference sets sights on Dublin 2027
ICSN2025 took place in Aarhus, Denmark, from 18 to 20 June.
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June 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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nsshse.bsky.social
Happy #Pride to the #LGBTQ+ community, our staff and allies.

We're proud to work with all communities all year round to make our screening services accessible and inclusive to everyone.

🌐 www.screeningservice.ie

#BowelScreen #BreastCheck #CervicalCheck #DiabeticRetinaScreen
June 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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nsshse.bsky.social
Catch up with our latest news, including:

🔶 new guide to screening for carers
🔶 #ICSN2025 conference
🔶 #MensHealthWeek 2025
🔶 measuring our rates of interval breast cancers

and more...

📖 tinyurl.com/nss-news-jun...

#ChooseScreening #NationalCarersWeek #BreastCheck
News update from the National Screening Service – June 2025
Latest news update from the National Screening Service - June 2025
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June 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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nsshse.bsky.social
This week we're taking part in meetings with the Expert Working Group of the European Commission Initiative on #CervicalCancer.

Prof @russelln.bsky.social has joined the international team to share learnings and expertise from #CervicalCheck.

More info: europa.eu/!RTw88g

#ChooseScreening
May 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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pregnancylossie.bsky.social
🆕📄 Use of the Abbott i-STAT®1 point of care device for hCG quantification in early pregnancy

✍️ @carolinemjoyce.bsky.social, Paula O'Shea, Rebecca Lynch, Seán Costelloe, Tommie McCarthy, John Coulter, Deirdre Hayes-Ryan, @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social

🔗 obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
OBGYN
Objectives To evaluate the use of the Abbott i-STAT®1 point-of-care-test (POCT) device for measurement of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to support the management of early pregnancy complication...
obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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pregnancylossie.bsky.social
Authors argue for "More comprehensive education in primary and secondary schools about the menstrual cycle to enhance the critical capacity of users when engaging with apps." - something we are doing in the #PLRG_SPRINGproject

@lauralinehan.bsky.social

www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...
May 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
russelln.bsky.social
Looking for ceol agus craic this Easter? Check out this incredible programme that Ballincollig Comhaltas have put together for the Cork Fleadh! #Comhaltas #Ballincollig #FleadhCeoilChorcai
April 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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nsshse.bsky.social
5 years ago, #CervicalCheck changed to primary HPV screening.

In a new blog, Clinical Director Prof @russelln.bsky.social reflects on this change, why it's a better test and provides better outcomes for women who #choosescreening, and what we've learned.

📖 tinyurl.com/5-years-HPV-IE
5 years of HPV cervical screening in Ireland: Providing better outcomes for women who choose screening
Prof Nóirín Russell reflects on 5 years of HPV cervical screening in Ireland and how it provides better outcomes for women who choose screening.
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March 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Wonderful, engaged audience and great questions after … really enjoyed the evening
Photo of crowd at Kathleen Lynn lecture
March 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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npec-ucc.bsky.social
On this #8M #InternationalWomensDay, we launch our Bluesky profile as a reaffirmation of our commitment to improving maternity care through research and clinical audit dissemination.

Welcome to our new Bluesky profile! Join the conversation—your insights matter.

#PerinatalHealth #ClinicalAudit
March 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Why were women absent from irish juries for 50 years? www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why were women absent from Irish juries for 50 years?
It took Irish courts and legislators until the 1970s to restore women's equal rights to serve on juries
www.rte.ie
March 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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nsshse.bsky.social
Our free Lunch & Learn webinars are tailored for all healthcare staff involved in providing #cervicalscreening services.

The next webinar on 12 March will be facilitated by Prof Nóirín Russell @russelln.bsky.social and will focus on enhancing cervical assessment.

Register: tinyurl.com/tuw53kze
March 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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nsshse.bsky.social
We’re inviting some women to come for #cervicalscreening a few months before their due date in 2025 - making sure that all women who #choosescreening can get their test, results and any follow-up treatment needed, in a timely manner.

👉 tinyurl.com/stcbhcac

#CervicalCheck
Balancing invites to cervical screening to support timely access for women to CervicalCheck services
We’re inviting some women to come for cervical screening a few months before their due date in 2025.
tinyurl.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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nsshse.bsky.social
Beth Wallace spoke with RSVP magazine about her experience of #CervicalCheck saying she's grateful she worked up the courage to go after initially being apprehensive.

"Cervical screening saves lives."

#ChooseScreening

www.rsvplive.ie/life/health/...
Dublin woman opens up about her experience of cervical screening and how to make it easier
Beth Wallace opened up about her cervical screening journey in the hopes that other women will be inspired to attend their appointments, as they could be life-saving
www.rsvplive.ie
February 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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nsshse.bsky.social
Ahead of #HPVAwarenessDay tomorrow, we’ve put together 6 of our best blogs to get you up to date on #HPV, vaccines, #cervicalscreening and how together, we can eliminate #cervicalcancer.

👉 tinyurl.com/6-blogs-hpv-...

#CervicalCheck #ChooseScreening
#TogetherTowardsElimination
6 blogs to get you up to date about HPV, vaccines, cervical screening, and cervical cancer elimination
For HPV awareness day, we’ve rounded up some of our best content to get you up to date on HPV, vaccines, cervical screening and how together, we can make cervical cancer rare.
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March 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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nsshse.bsky.social
We know that HPV causes most cervical cancers - over 90% of cases.

We also know we can prevent it:
👉 HPV vaccination
👉 cervical screening
👉 treatment for those who need it

Let’s make cervical cancer rare: www.hse.ie/cervicalcancerelimination

#HPVAwarennessDay #TogetherTowardsElimination
March 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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nsshse.bsky.social
We’ve developed new resources with the HSE QUIT team and nurses in #colposcopy to support women to:

👉 understand the link between smoking, HPV and cervical cancer
👉 access stop smoking services if they choose to

➡️ tinyurl.com/nss-smoking-...

#HPVAwarenessDay
Smoking and HPV - supporting patients and colposcopy staff to understand the links between HPV and cervical cancer
We’ve created new resources to support healthcare professionals and women attending colposcopy to understand the link between smoking, HPV and cervical cancer.
tinyurl.com
March 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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ruthvmd.medsky.social
fascinating - at least for surgeons we did ok this time "Female surgeons compared with male surgeons had higher odds of receiving an interpersonal manner comment and of receiving a positive patient comment for their interpersonal manner "#SurgSky #WomeninMedicine
February 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
Today is the international day of the Woman and Girl in Science. To all badass women, scientists keep doing what you do: discovery, mentorship, and hard work. YOU belong in SCIENE.
To others, uplift the Women scientists you know, cite them, promote them, sponsor them, invite them - be an upstander.
February 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM