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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: This morning, the committee is meeting with representatives of the HSE and CervicalCheck to receive an update on the CervicalCheck programme. The committee has expressed a particular interest in hearing about the proposed introduction of HPV testing for cervical screening and in discussing delayed smear reporting. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. Damien McCallion, national director...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: I propose that committee members have ten minutes each for questions and answers and non-committee members have five minutes each. Everyone will get an opportunity to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: The witnesses might deal with one further question and then I will move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: Before I bring in our non-members, the first of who will be Deputy Bríd Smith, I want to say that the issues that arose last April were caused by non-disclosure, in particular the non-disclosure of a look-back audit on women who had already been diagnosed with cancer and whose smears were being reviewed. That was the issue at the time, and it still is an issue. At the moment the issue...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: There is no timeline for moving to HPV testing because CervicalCheck cannot do that until it has stabilised the existing system. It could be a number of years, therefore, before we move to HPV testing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: Front-line staff, not only GPs but also staff manning the phone lines, are under extreme pressure regarding the phone calls they receive from women due to complete frustration with not getting their test. The pressure on front-line staff on the phones is almost unbearable. There is a difficulty relating to the stress they are under and maintaining those staff. There is an urgency even with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: I will bring in Deputy Bríd Smith. We will give five minutes to each of our non-members, so I ask them to be concise in their questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. McCallion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: I am sorry, but we have been-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: We have been here for three hours so I am obliged to offer our guests a break, if they wish, or perhaps they are fine to continue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: I thank Mr. McCallion. That completes the first round of contributors. We will now take a second round. I call Deputy Donnelly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: I ask that answers to those questions be as brief as possible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: I am sorry, we have to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: The point Dr. Henry is making is that screening is for people who have no symptoms whatsoever.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: Once someone has symptoms, screening is not the appropriate service to attend.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: Sorry, Deputy, is there a specific question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: Will we put that question to our witnesses. When could we realistically see an improvement in the backlog?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: Sorry Deputy O'Connell, Professor Flannelly is not here to defend herself. Keep that in mind.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Michael Harty: One of the benefits of the screening programme was that a woman got a result within four or five weeks-----