Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion

9:00 am

Dr. Stephanie O'Keeffe:

I think it is clear from the documentation that the CervicalCheck programme was engaging with clinicians through the colposcopy forum and through the 15 colposcopy centres providing the services on down through the histopathology labs. It is clear in the documentation, when they are talking about how they develop the audit process, and it is certainly very clear throughout the briefings, particularly in the October briefing, that they are actually stating - for example, in the paragraph I read out earlier today - that they are engaging with consultants and clinicians in an ongoing way to support them with this process, writing out to the clinicians with regard to the support for the communications and the support to be able to have this conversation with women. All of those documents are there. It is the case, however, that if there were issues or concerns arising within CervicalCheck, and I say "if" because the only person who can really give us that answer fully is not here today, because the person who engaged with those consulting clinicians in the main was Professor Flannelly herself, then either she felt it was being dealt with or it was not escalated as an issue.

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