Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion
9:00 am
Mr. Damien McCallion:
That is a fair point. There is a subtle distinction with screening programmes. Let us consider the period looking back to 2011. The real-time hospital setting, as described earlier, is how open disclosure should work best. The idea is that when it happens, the error is disclosed, the conversation takes place and then it moves on. The case of screening would involve examining retrospectively to 2011. It means a long period has elapsed since the episode. Other aspects of this need to be factored in with regard to how any measure is rolled out.