Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 17 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

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

Professor Ann O'Doherty:

For BreastCheck most of our screening - 70% - is done in a mobile breast screening unit. We normally would have screened 40 women a day in a mobile unit. We now have put a mobile into Beaumont Hospital to help with symptomatic services and we are managing 21 women a day, which is better than we expected. It will have an impact because social distancing has a major impact on our ability to deliver clinical services in all areas. We have a huge challenge, which I am not underestimating and I do not want to give the impression that we can surmount it easily, but we have to put all our efforts and resources into doing so, and we will be doing that.

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