Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion

Dr. Adrienne Duff:

As recently as September 2018, we were subject to our latest peer evaluation. We are subject to these once every four years by the European association of accreditation bodies. That evaluation takes place in our offices and it is a combination of an office assessment and an assessment of our implementation of ISO standards onsite. With specific reference to ISO 15189, we had two European colleagues who are experts in accreditation and ISO 15189 evaluating our systems on-site for a week.