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:

I do not know what is wrong with the system today. The question relates to the reading in a laboratory of the slide on which the material from the cervical smear test has been applied. In other words, it is the examination of that through a microscope. In the first three years of the programme, there were two full and complete reads by two separate people. On the basis of an international evaluation panel recommendation, there are still two reviews, but the second is what is known as a "rapid review".

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