Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme

9:00 am

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

They are also saying it now. What I would say is that wherever the screening takes place, there is no point in recreating cervical cytology experience, because by the end of this year that test will be obsolete. The screening programme will move to human papillomavirus, HPV, testing, which will deal with many of the vagaries that we have discussed today. Wherever the testing is to take place, there is no merit whatsoever in beginning to create-----

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