Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process

Mr. Stephen Teap:

Many of those who have been observing and commenting on the whole CervicalCheck debacle consider the use of the term "limitations of screening" in the manner I have described to be unfortunate, particularly when things such as human error are considered to be one of the limitations in question. I suggest that human error is one of the limitations of being a human. It should not fall into the screening process.