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

Dr. Jerome Coffey:

What those words were trying to express was the fact that this particular patient had a diagnosis and had previously had a screening history that we were aware of. The screening look-back, the retrospective nature, is what I was referring to. It does not mean this was not a broader issue or that the ongoing cancer audit was not important and it was not referring to any disclosure issues. Specifically on that point, the patient at that time and what we knew to be the case, I would have to say that much additional knowledge about the broader programme and the disclosure issues became evident subsequent to that communication.

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