Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process
Ms Lorraine Walsh:
Exactly. That was one of the issues. I referred to another in my opening statement relating to a report in the UK about RCOG's IT system and how it raised questions about how RCOG was managing the data for this review.
The 2018-19 cervical screening programme quality statement in England, which was published in November, reads: "There is generally no accepted or expected level of false negatives in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme." Despite this, RCOG expects us to accept a 30% false negative rate. That is what RCOG wrote. I wonder why it is telling us that this is an acceptable rate when it says that there is no acceptable rate. That is a question.
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