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

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Mr. O'Brien has said that we do not know exactly how many people are involved in this new group. To give the public some sense of the scale we are talking about, a back of the envelope calculation would suggest 250 to 300 new cases a year for ten to ten and a half years would represent approximately 3,000 women. Just under 1,500 have already been identified to CervicalCheck. Are we talking about an additional 1,500 women? Are the witnesses in a position to broadly confirm that?

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