Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 May 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed)
9:00 am
Dr. Jerome Coffey:
The GP is not involved in bowel screening but I am open to correction on that. The test is posted directly to the patient, who later returns it. The laboratory then analyses it and if the test is abnormal the patient is referred to a colonoscopy unit for a colonoscopy in a hospital.