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. John Gleeson:

We have been planning for some time. This might accelerate it a bit, but we will be required to comply with procurement legislation and timeframes if we need to tender for the service. Nobody in procurement in the HSE would specify a country in which it was to be located unless we were directed otherwise. It is a considerable undertaking even to put in place the structures to change the operation of the screening programme and to convert it to HPV testing, that is, looking for the presence of infection with certain types of HPV which are associated with cervical cancer rather than looking down a microscope for the presence of abnormal cells on a slide. It will have to inform what we-----

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