Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion
Mr. Jim Breslin:
The programme itself, how it is organised and its ability to increase capacity must be examined. The HSE can speak on that aspect. The contracts are not budget limited. We do not state to the HSE that there will only be a certain number of screens. The laboratories screen based on the tests taken. The reality, however, and this is relevant to where we are now, is the capacity of those laboratories to expand the numbers of screens is limited based on their ability to get the human resources to do so. The HSE would have been liaising, as it does as part of the normal programme, with the laboratories to try to scale up that testing. Significant issues have been encountered, however, in doing that in a situation where there are very significant constraints globally-----
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