Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Damien McCallion:

Yes. All laboratories have an accreditation standard and their own quality assurance. We have a level of quality assurance which is fairly standard. As Dr. Lorraine Doherty identified earlier, our new pathology lead is updating that standard to strengthen it.

Dr. Scally is doing a follow-up report on laboratories. It does not mean that there are not issues that we need to tackle, as there would be with all laboratories on an ongoing basis. We will continue to do that and work closely with Dr. Scally and his team on it. We met them last week.