Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion

Dr. Peter McKenna:

The main problem we are hearing from the colposcopy clinics that we have visited, and from colposcopists around the country, is that there is an increased number of inappropriate referrals to colposcopy. They are not inappropriate referrals but they are inappropriate referrals to colposcopy.