Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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My question was whether there is a culture of referral elsewhere in the event of a patient in a serious condition requiring urgent treatment. Such a patient, being a private patient elsewhere, deserves and requires treatment of an emergency nature immediately, not when somebody has decided that the patient is private and will be dealt with differently.