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

Dr. Gabriel Scally:

Sure. I do not think they were surprised that there were issues and that there were cases where a re-look at slides produced a different interpretation because of the nature of the screening test, given that there are false negatives. They would not have been surprised about that. We must remember that for all that it was badly done, it was an unusual initiative in the screening world to do that and they must get a modicum of credit for having decided to look back, even if that look-back was done very badly.

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