Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion

Mr. Damien McCallion:

Yes. We have a full team that is dedicated separately working on this to all of the other streams of work that are going on around the programme. We brought a completely new team in to manage this. There is a full database set up and a helpline set up. There is both basic information and clinical access as well. We have a consultant who comes in and works for us on a part-time basis in order to help. I refer to circumstances in which there might be complex calls whereby people are worried or concerned, or maybe even distressed, as a result of receiving the letter. They can have a conversation with someone about what it means. We have tried to support it as best we can.