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:

I am sorry, I should correct what I said. The process has been evolving for two and a half years. The decision to disclose was taken. It was to go back to every diagnosis made since 1 September 2008 when the CervicalCheck programme started. They commenced in February 2016. There was a backlog because we were going back to 2008, but we got all of them out by around September 2016 and as cases have been reviewed since. We have modified this approach slightly to make it better to make sure it gets to whom it is intended. The process is still evolving and obviously we are trying to get better at it.

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