Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion

Dr. Peter McKenna:

The reason there are 80,000 smears waiting to be read has nothing to do with primary care or colposcopy clinics. It has to do with the lack of capacity in the laboratories to look at, analyse and give a result on the cervical smears.