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:

We have asked CervicalCheck for that information. We have asked CervicalCheck why the information was not escalated and so on. Again, the Scally inquiry will have to determine this fully, but within the CervicalCheck programme I think there was a lack of a perception of what that risk might mean once CervicalCheck realised, certainly with the correspondence from Dr. Hickey, that that information was not being communicated to patients. However, I cannot really comment because I was not involved in any of the conversations and had none of the information. There is a clear risk-----

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