Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion

Mr. Damien McCallion:

The acute hospitals division wrote to all of the hospitals for the avoidance of doubt to ensure that, if a private smear result was referred to, as Dr. Doherty said, a public colposcopy clinic, the patient would be treated based on clinical need and priority.