Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 17 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed)

Mr. Damien McCallion:

There will be significant challenges in screening. It is important to remember we are only coming through the first phase of the pandemic. The capacity of the screening and treatment centres will drop from anything between 30% and 70% across the different services through this phase.

Clearly, if we have a resurgence, or a number of resurgences, that will bring further challenges. I will ask my colleague, Professor O'Doherty, to describe what some of those challenges are in the context of BreastCheck to give the Deputy some real examples of the practical issues on the ground in the service.

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