Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

BreastCheck and National Cancer Control Programme: HSE
BreastCheck Screening Programme and Improving Outcomes for Breast Cancer: Discussion

Ms Fiona Murphy:

I can pick up that question. As Professor Flanagan mentioned, last year we screened about 56,000 people, and that left us about 120,000 short. We aim to screen all those patients this year. We are about 6% ahead of where we expected to be this year. Despite the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions and limits in our capacity, we are just ahead of where we expected to be by now. It will take another year to get to the people from 2021. They will be screened in 2022. Within three years of 2022, we anticipate being back to the start and then we will begin the next round of screening.

I was not quite sure what the Deputy said in her second question. Could she repeat that?