Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Michele Tait:

Dr. Scally made a number of recommendations across lots of areas. Since the report was published last year, the HSE has made significant changes in the information it gives to women and service users of CervicalCheck. The information is unrecognisable from the information we used to give people. This was done in consultation with patients at every step of the way since last September. There have been almost 200,000 visits to the website since we brought in the changes, all on foot of Dr. Scally's recommendations which have relevance across information, governance, quality assurance, etc. A huge body of work has already been done on the information we give to the public and we have also worked hard to improve the information we share with clinical colleagues. All Dr. Scally's recommendations are being fully implemented by the HSE.