Results 41-60 of 96 for cervical speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (14 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...health advice and international best practice. Immunisation is regarded as one of the safest and most cost-effective of health care interventions. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. The vaccine is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (19 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...best practice. Immunisation is regarded as one of the safest and most cost-effective of health care interventions. The HPV vaccine, which was introduced in 2010, protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. The vaccine is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: International evidence recommends population based screening programmes for bowel, breast and cervical cancer. The HSE provides cancer screening programmes for these three cancers. BowelScreen, the National Bowel Screening Programme, commenced offering free bowel screening nationwide to men and women aged 60 to 69 years in late 2012. In 2014 BowelScreen issued 266,000 invitations. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...®and Cervarix®). Gardasil®is the vaccine used by the HSE in the School Immunisation Programme. The vaccine protects against two high risk types of HPV (16 & 18) that cause 73% of all cervical cancers. Vaccinated women and girls will still be at risk from other high risk types of HPV that can cause cervical cancer and will therefore need to continue to have regular...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 May 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...and focus remains on getting to the truth of what happened through the Scally inquiry, ensuring that women who have been affected are contacted and engaged, rebuilding confidence in the life-saving CervicalCheck screening programme and carrying out individual case reviews of all 209 women who formed part of the audit to assess their smear tests and determine the impact that the alternative...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...HSE in the School Immunisation Programme and over 100,000 girls have received this vaccine since its introduction. The vaccine protects against two high risk types of HPV (16 & 18) that cause 73% of all cervical cancers. Vaccinated women and girls will still be at risk from other high risk types of HPV that can cause cervical cancer and will therefore need to continue to have...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...and emotive issue and has caused concern throughout the country, not just among people who have been affected and their families, but among women in general, and women, in particular, who avail of cervical screening. I believe the Government has taken a lot actions in a swift manner. We established a serious incident management team to go into CervicalCheck and deal with the issues...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (13 Oct 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...health advice and international best practice. Immunisation is regarded as one of the safest and most cost-effective of health care interventions. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. The vaccine is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the House to take this opportunity to extend my condolences to the family of Laura Brennan, whose service of remembrance is taking place in Ennis today. As Deputies will know, she died from cervical cancer but worked closely with the health service to become a powerful advocate for HPV vaccination and, because of her, we were able to increase its uptake again. While she has lost her...

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I was asked about audits. Since 2008, 3 million smear tests have been carried out by CervicalCheck. I do not believe it would be practical to repeat 3 million tests or recheck them and that may well not be warranted. The HSE has advised, however, that between 2008 and early 2018, 1,482 cervical cancer cases had been notified to CervicalCheck by the national cancer registry. The majority of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...those who need to handle it better this time. When we say it is not 100% or perfect, that does not fully explain a screening programme. For every 100 healthy women who are screened - not just for cervical screening but for other programmes, too - in approximately 12 cases, anomalies will be picked up and can be followed up, while approximately eight will be missed. If looked at it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...is available on my Department's website (www.health.gov.ie). There are no plans to introduce a vaccine damage compensation scheme at this time. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Research (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...lifestyles to reduce the risk of many chronic diseases, including cancer. The focus in this regard is on prevention and on keeping people healthier for longer. Also, our national breast, cervical and bowel screening programmes have a key role to play in saving lives by detecting cancer at an early stage. The World Health Organisation estimates that more than 30% of cancer deaths...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Cover (8 Dec 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...will be applicable specifically to either men or women. For example, the Regulations include provision for such medical treatments as a prostatectomy or testicular biopsy (in the case of men) and cervical biopsy or maternity services (in the case of women). The health services and procedures provided by minimum benefit should be viewed as a cohort of procedures that are important and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papilloma virus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from the...

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Leo Varadkar: To clarify, in all 1,400 cases the original smears have been rechecked. The way the audit worked is that if a woman was diagnosed with cervical cancer between 2008 and 2014, they went back and checked all of the smear tests to see if there were false negatives or false positives. To reassure people, in all 1,400 cases those smear tests were rechecked already. That is the way this audit...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Leo Varadkar: First, in regard to CervicalCheck, a daily report and update is being provided by CervicalCheck on its website. That comes out at about 5 p.m. every day. If the Deputy goes to the CervicalCheck website, he will see it gives detailed guidance for GPs and smear takers as to what is happening and it gives them advice and guidance as to how they should communicate with patients who come to see...

Acknowledgement and Apology to Women and Families affected by CervicalCheck Debacle: Statements (22 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: As Taoiseach, on behalf of the State, I apologise to the women and their loved ones who suffered from a litany of failures in how cervical screening in the country operated for many years. I do so having listened to many of those affected and do so guided by the Scally inquiry report. Today we say "Sorry" to those whose lives were shattered. We say "Sorry" to those whose lives were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Prices (30 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...be applicable specifically to either men or women. By way of example, the Regulations include provision for such medical treatments as a prostatectomy or testicular biopsy (in the case of men) and cervical biopsy or maternity services (in the case of women). The health services and procedures provided by minimum benefit should be viewed as a cohort of procedures that are important...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papilloma virus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from the...