Professor Ann O'Doherty:

Screening is different to diagnostic services because we expect errors. Screening was in the HSE open disclosure implementation for 2018. It was commenced in 2013 and put in place in all of the acute hospitals. We were on the list for 2018. I sat on the UK committee for implementation of breast screening for 30 years. I was allowed to remain on that committee because I was one of the founding members of the committee with the UK programme. I am very lucky that since coming to Dublin, I have been allowed to continue as an observer on that committee. The duty of candour legislation was introduced in the UK in 2014 but open disclosure around screening only commenced in 2017. In terms of how they did it-----