Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion
9:00 am
Mr. John Connaghan:
Let me just add a couple of remarks to that from other jurisdictions.
Following a series of scandals in England and elsewhere over the past ten years, a number of policies were put in place by various Governments on things like the duty of candour. I expect that Irish clinicians would have been aware of that and of the growing movement towards open disclosure. I would be surprised if any clinician in Ireland at that point in time would have said that open disclosure was not a good thing.
In fact disclosure, as we see in respect of the other process, was undoubtedly a good thing.
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