Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence

9:00 am

Professor Aiden McCormick:

However, that is not a modelling study using individual data. That is just taking published material from across the European Union and saying, "This is what it is in this country and that is what it is in that country." It is not using our individual data. The study that is published is the one on European epidemiology produced by Dr. Garvey from the HPSC in 2017. That is the most up-to-date one on the basis of virus reference laboratory data. That gives almost exactly the same figure we have come up with. I think it was 20,200 or something.