Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion
Mr. Damien McCallion:
It is probably important to restate that the future test has a HPV test but it still has cytology for 15% of those. We can provide information such as the HIQA report that Mr. Breslin mentioned which sets out how that works. While it is a more reliable test, none of those tests is 100% accurate and there is a defined rate on that. We can circulate that so that people who are watching are clear what those percentages are.