Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion
Dr. Gabriel Scally:
Yes. As I wrote in my report, a good place to start would be with the public health screening programmes. They differ dramatically. It is not sick people coming to see the Chairman or any other doctor. Rather, these are well people and the state, in deciding to run the programme for the whole population, is reaching out to them and offering them a service for their and the state's benefit. Therefore, we have a particular duty of care towards the patients involved, including a duty of caring for them if the system fails them in any way.
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