Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)

9:00 am

Dr. Peter McKenna:

Almost certainly not. Some 250,000 tests came into CervicalCheck, the majority of which are reported as normal. As part of the quality assurance an agreed sample of, for example, one in 50 or 100 cases are sent to another laboratory, which would be sufficient.