Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is a responsibility on us to be very careful we do not represent something that may be a limitation of medicine. We have been talking about screening for a long time. We know that a false positive or negative is not a misdiagnosis or a missed cancer. Similarly we know there are limitations to medicine. Dr. Henry, as chief clinical officer in the HSE, may give the Senator more specifics.

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