Results 201-220 of 1,616 for cervical

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (4 Jul 2006) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Harney: Under the Irish Cervical Screening Programme (ICSP), cervical screening is currently offered, free of charge, to approximately 74,000 women in the 25 to 60 age group, at five year intervals, in the HSE Mid-Western Region. I wish to see the ICSP rolled out nationally by 2008, based on an affordable model and in line with international best practice. Significant preparatory work is well under...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (25 Apr 2006) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Harney: I am fully committed to the national roll out of a cervical screening programme in line with international best practice. My Department has requested the Health Service Executive to prepare a detailed implementation plan for a national programme. The plan is to have cervical screening managed as a national call and recall programme via effective governance structures that provide overall...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (1 Jun 2006) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Harney: I am fully committed to the national roll out of a cervical screening programme in line with international best practice. My Department has requested the Health Service Executive to prepare a detailed implementation plan for a national programme. The plan is to have cervical screening managed as a national call/recall programme via effective governance structures that provide overall...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 Jul 2014)

Tom Shehan: Whoever will be Minister for Health come tomorrow, can he or she be brought to the House as a matter of urgency to debate the extension of the free cervical cancer screening programme to college students on their entrance to third level? As it stands, free screening is only available to the over-25s. There seems to be a quasi and lackadaisical approach to this matter. I dealt with a young...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...for the HSE. It is working with the faculty of pathology to build the required expertise. As already stated, Dr. Cillian De Gascun was recently appointed as interim director of the national cervical screening laboratory. A lot will depend on the pace of recruitment. It is a matter of high-level expertise. Thankfully, new technologies that reduce the capacity for human error have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (5 Feb 2019)

Simon Harris: In September, Government accepted all 50 of the recommendations that were set out in Dr Scally’s report into CervicalCheck, which was published on the 12th of September. I then committed to returning to Government within three months as recommended by Dr Scally with a full plan for the implementation of these recommendations. That plan was published on the 11th of December on my...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Oct 2019)

Simon Harris: ..., the immunisation schedule will continue to be amended over time. There are only three licensed HPV vaccines available in Ireland. HPV2 protects against strains 2 of HPV that cause 70% of cervical cancers, HPV4 protects against 4 strains of HPV so it protects against 70% of cervical cancers and 90% of genital warts, and HPV9 which protects against 9 strains of HPV and so can provide...

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2018)

Simon Coveney: ...to her and to her family. It might be helpful for me to put on the record what is going to change as a result and how that has come about. In 2014, at the time when Vicky Phelan was diagnosed, CervicalCheck initiated clinical reviews for all notified cases of cervical cancer arising from screening. At that time, the information was used to inform improvements in the system and was...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (23 Mar 2006) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Harney: I am fully committed to the national roll out of a cervical screening programme in line with international best practice. The Department of Health and Children has asked the Health Service Executive to prepare a detailed implementation plan for a national programme. It is planned that cervical screening will be managed under a national call or recall programme with effective governance...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (25 Sep 2020)

Frank Feighan: ...have saved thousands of lives in this country and have helped make diseases like polio and smallpox, which previously caused devastation to families and communities, largely a thing of the past. Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide and one woman dies of cervical cancer every two minutes. Almost all of the cases of cervical cancer can be attributed to HPV...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (2 Oct 2018)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 340 and 357 together. I am informed by the State Claims Agency that, as with all claims, the Mediator is appointed by agreement between the parties in the Cervical Check claims. If the parties cannot agree a mediator, there are institutions which may make an appointment, including the Law Society of Ireland, the Mediators Institute of Ireland, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2019)

Leo Varadkar: I thank the Deputy very much. I agree that CervicalCheck, alongside the HPV vaccine for girls, has been successful in reducing the incidence of cervical cancer in Ireland. It has led to women being diagnosed with cervical cancer sooner, which has resulted in a fall in the number of cases of cervical cancer and the number of deaths resulting from cervical cancer. Overall, both CervicalCheck...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (7 Feb 2006) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Harney: I am fully committed to the national roll-out of a cervical screening programme in line with international best practice. My Department has requested the Health Service Executive to prepare a detailed implementation plan for a national programme. The plan is to have cervical screening managed as a national call and recall programme via effective governance structures that provide overall...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (8 Nov 2011)

Luke Flanagan: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct the National Cancer Screening Service to contact all those women who had a cervical smear test taken and to ask them if they had to pay for the postage of their samples, using registered post €5.80; if he will enquire from the National Cancer Screening Service the steps that have been put in place to ensure that participating...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (27 Apr 2005)

Mary Harney: The former health board executive commissioned an international expert in cervical screening to examine the feasibility and implications of the national roll-out of a cervical screening programme. The examination included an evaluation of the current pilot programme in the mid-western area, quality assurance, laboratory capacity and organisation and the establishment of national governance...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (13 Mar 2019)

Simon Harris: The increased volume of smear tests since the CervicalCheck issues arose in April 2018 has been significant, and includes women who have availed of the out of cycle tests, but also a greater number of women presenting for scheduled screening. This increased level of engagement with the programme is welcome. However, the increased demand has undoubtedly put pressure on lab capacity and...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2018) See 3 other results from this debate

Colm Burke: -----in relation to the cervical cancer issue. A statement was issued by the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists today which we should welcome. We need to deal with this in a very careful manner. We have to acknowledge Vicky Phelan and her family for bringing this to the fore and highlighting the difficulties she has gone through and what she has to face into in the future. It...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (21 Nov 2007) See 3 other results from this answer

Jan O'Sullivan: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the cost of sending cervical smears from Ireland to a company (details supplied) in the past year; if she has satisfied herself that the method of testing equates with that here; the efforts being made to expand capacity in Ireland in order that this work can be carried out here; the extra capacity that will be needed for the roll...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (20 May 2008) See 2 other results from this answer

Seán Barrett: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the rationale behind the decision to outsource cervical screening services to a laboratory (details supplied) in view of the fact that Irish laboratories, whose staffs have provided this service for many years in the absence of a national screening programme, already meet international best practice criteria; if specialist graduates...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (13 May 2008)

Mary Harney: The roll out of a national cervical screening programme is the most efficient population approach to preventing and controlling cervical cancer. The National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) is planning to roll out such a programme on a national basis and is in the final stages of preparations. The service will be available free of charge to all eligible women in Ireland aged 25-60. A national...