Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Damien McCallion:

It is complex and is not straightforward. We are still working on that with laboratories. We have managed to isolate colposcopies because of the way they are identified. This is helpful because they are crucial. At that point a woman is in diagnosis or potentially in treatment.

With regard to the 221 women and their families and next of kin who are impacted by the original audit, the audit by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, RCOG, was intended to audit the clinical status of those cases. That process was set up by the Government. It is now clear that in respect of the 221 affected women, and based on the consent rate of around 31%, that we need to do something ourselves. I have been working with our chief clinical officer to-----