Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Independent Expert Panel Review into Cervical Screening: Discussion

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is good. I will move on to the mislabelling of slides. As Professor Kitchener will understand, there is grave concern about this. I have read the explanations and considered the validity of them. Lorraine Walsh is one of the two patient advocates who were part of the process themselves and, in fairness, she put herself forward as advocate. Vicky Phelan was the other person who was part of the process. Three sets of slides were mislabelled and two of them happened to belong to those two women. The third lady remains anonymous. Statistically, that is incredible and gives cause for public concern. We are to understand that in the case of Vicky and Lorraine, their labels were taken off and put on incorrectly, Vicky's on Lorraine's set and vice versa. How could that happen, statistically, to two of the three women, out of a total of 1,038 cases reviewed?

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