Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I mean all of the information. I noted that Dr. Scally said in his introduction that he is unaware of any further documents or information. That does not mean they do not exist.

I helped to provide the colposcopists' minutes to the committee once upon a time and I still read them. We need to have a process to deal with accountability within the HSE as regards the screening programme and who was in charge. I would like to hear Dr. Scally's comments on that. We need somebody who will be a management person with responsibility for screening, which is a role that does not fully exist at the moment.

For the public, the most amazing revelation was how some clinicians were behaving in terms of how they were communicating the information. In what forum can the matter be pursued in order to lance that boil, because the public need it lanced? It was a watershed moment in Irish healthcare, as regards the clinician-patient relationship. They are my three areas of questions.

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