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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: That is what I am really getting at. The man in Salford in Manchester was conducting tests for nine months before there was mention of the second cytoscreener. That is when MedLab Pathology got in contact with the Irish National Accreditation Board, INAB. INAB was not in any way aware of the Manchester laboratory until the application was received for the second employee. Deputy Harty...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I understand that. However, in the case of State contracts, specifically the contracts for cervical and bowel screening, the ISO standard is specified. The contracts have been signed with the companies. MedLab Pathology had a laboratory in Manchester, with a guy working on his own, of whom INAB was blissfully unaware for nine months, until the laboratory applied for accreditation for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Page 26 of the supplementary report of the Scally inquiry specifically states a process is in place for INAB to accredit outside the Irish jurisdiction. It is stated in smaller print: In a very small number of cases, if an Irish organisation decided to set up a branch office in the UK, then that could fall under the remit of INAB accreditation. This information would be clearly documented...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: In those other cases did INAB accredit them the moment they opened? Let us imagine Deputy Durkan has a laboratory in the United Kingdom. Are there other examples where a laboratory in the Irish jurisdiction opened a satellite laboratory in the United Kingdom and INAB followed its own processes to accredit it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: INAB carries out an annual audit. When it audited the Sandyford facility annually since 2016, did it ever notice that MedLab Pathology was sending material to Manchester? Did MedLab Pathology ever mention the laboratory in Manchester during the audits? When INAB was performing its annual audit which I imagine is supposed to keep us all safe, did it notice that the Manchester laboratory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Women were having smears taken in Ireland. They were supposed to be sent to Sandyford. INAB is in charge of accreditation to ISO standards, independently of the HSE. Somehow a laboratory was operating and testing women's smears in Manchester without accreditation and INAB never noticed when it was auditing. There is no purpose to the audit if INAB cannot see what is right in front of it,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Can the committee have them? Can we have a copy of the procedures which outline what INAB checks during an audit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Was the competency file of the fellow from Manchester in Sandyford when INAB carried out the audit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: MedLab Pathology kept all of his work files in Sandyford.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: His results were assessed as being normal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: However, no one from INAB ever stepped into the laboratory in Salford.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: That is, the paperwork on the work of the man in Manchester was assessed in Ireland, assuming that the work at that point was being carried out in Sandyford.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: There are many important parts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I refer to the bowel screening programme which, by the looks of things, is operated by MedLab Pathology. Who can talk to me about it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I had a look on its site. I printed this off before the summer, for our last meeting. In May 2010 MedLab Pathology was given the contract to the be sole provider of the national colon cancer programme. It opened the laboratory in August 2010. It received ISO 15189 accreditation in December 2011. Perhaps I am reading it all wrong, but it seems that we have another example of a laboratory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: There are very specific questions and perhaps Mr. McCallion has a different answer from what is on MedLab's website. In May 2010, the company was awarded a contract but it did not receive its ISO accreditation until 2011. I am wondering whether between May 2010 and December 2011, there was a laboratory in Dublin operating without ISO accreditation. Was there ISO accreditation for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It is not that I do not believe Mr. McCallion but rather that I do not understand it. Has there been a sanction from a European body because of the breach? One accreditation in INAB's history has been given to a laboratory in this way. Has the European body been in contact about INAB's procedures and the way it does its work? There is an ISO standard and if a company or state is seeking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: That was last September.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: What was the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Was this specific incident highlighted at all?