Results 41-60 of 128 for cervical speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (11 Jul 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...contained in this report has been extracted from the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and is accurate as of 30/06/2023. Criteria used Claims received between 01/01/2013 to 30/06/2023. Cervical Cancer NSS claims received between 2013 & 2023 YTD Claim Received Year Number of Claims 2013 0 2014 1 ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: ...a useful segue into the next question, which many people have been asking since the Minister made his statement last night. If there are approximately 3,000 women known to have been diagnosed with cervical cancer, why has the national screening service only been engaging in audits on less than 1,500 of those? Why were the other 1,500 not under the remit of CervicalCheck?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 127. To ask the Minister for Health if he sought to meet with the senior management of CervicalCheck after receiving a 2018 memo CervicalCheck: Patient claim following a diagnosis of cervical cancer, Briefing note for Minister Harris or after the case referred to in the memo became public on 25 April 2019 or at any time before expressing publicly that he did not have confidence in them. [16858/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (11 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 704. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who has developed cervical cancer after she was given a false negative result by CervicalCheck can be given the supports and facilities provided to the patients in the official 221 Plus group despite the fact that her diagnosis was not as a result of the audit undertaken by CervicalCheck but arose instead after her referral to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (1 Jun 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...on age extension for this screening (the programme currently invites those aged 60 to 69, with an extension to people aged 59 to begin end of 2023). There has also been significant investment in cervical screening, including the introduction of the more effective HPV screening test to help us detect more cancers at an early stage, and the construction of the new National Cervical...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Deputy Conway-Walsh. Dr. Scally and I met this morning in the context of his report. One of the things we talked about is our absolute commitment to the goal of eradicating cervical cancer in this country, and the HPV vaccine is part of that. As the Deputy will be aware, we are rolling out the Laura Brennan HPV catch-up programme. The NIAC advice I have at present is to provide...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tribunals of Inquiry (22 Nov 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...resolved between the parties following which final orders were made by the Tribunal. Five (5) concluded cases ended on the basis that the Tribunal issued notifications pursuant to s. 12 (3) of the CervicalCheck Tribunal Act, 2019. It is anticipated that the Cervical Check Tribunal's work dealing with claims will come to a conclusion next year. Operational costs of the Tribunal for 2020...

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Report Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 2:In page 6, line 31, after “concerned,” to insert the following:“where that woman agreed to participating in the Review of Cervical Screening up to 3 months after the commencement of this Act,”. This is effectively the same as my Committee Stage amendment. I hope to be able to withdraw it. I would like the Minister, though, if he could, to...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: ...this evening. There is a great deal of public confusion, fear and anger on this issue. Women have asked me if they might get a phone call to tell them the caller is very sorry but the woman has cervical cancer. We know that is not the case and that the women who will be contacted have been already diagnosed with cancer. However, it gives an indication of the level of fear out there. I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...-year boys and girls in secondary school as part of the routine HPV vaccination programme. A vaccine uptake of 90% in girls by the age of 15 is one of the targets required to achieve the goal of cervical cancer elimination by 2040. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked every country to put measures in place to reach this target, and the HSE is working to increase the vaccine...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (16 Dec 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 275, 276, 283 and 284 together. The HSE has confirmed that CervicalCheck is not in opposition to the actions of the Supreme Court or of the Government. The HSE, National Screening Service (NSS) and CervicalCheck programme have been recently communicating about the contents and recommendations of Expert Reference Groups’ (ERG) reports, which were...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Feb 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: ...planning and in monitoring progress being made under the National Cancer Strategy. Based on the most recent staging data provided by the NCRI, the stage at diagnosis for breast, lung, colorectal, cervical and ovarian cancer (2014-2018) is as follows: These figures relate to the stage at the time of the patient’s initial diagnosis, or within a window of up to 4 months after diagnosis...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...year boys and girls in secondary school as part of the routine HPV vaccination programme. A vaccine uptake of 90% in girls by the age of 15 is one of the targets required to achieve the goal of cervical cancer elimination by 2040. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked every country to put measures in place to reach this target, and the HSE is working to increase the vaccine...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (17 Feb 2021)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the response given in December 2020 to the previous Parliamentary Questions on this referred to by the Deputy. As set out on the previous reply, I wish to reaffirm that the HSE confirmed that CervicalCheck is not in opposition to the actions of the Supreme Court or of the Government. As explained in the previous reply, the HSE, National Screening Service (NSS) and CervicalCheck programme...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...whose confidence in this programme has been shaken. My understanding of the programme is that it has been highly effective in terms of clinical outcomes, with about a 7% reduction year on year in cervical cancer that can be linked back to the start of the programme. It was not happening anyway. There is a link there that presumably is a causal relationship. As an ancillary, there will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Coverage (2 Feb 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...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...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...year boys and girls in secondary school as part of the routine HPV vaccination programme. A vaccine uptake of 90% in girls by the age of 15 is one of the targets required to achieve the goal of cervical cancer elimination by 2040. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked every country to put measures in place to reach this target, and the HSE is working to increase the vaccine...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...deeply worrying. Rightly or wrongly, it paints a picture of secrecy and confusion which Dr. Scally appropriately described as entirely unacceptable. It is not too much for women availing of the cervical screening service to be able to discover where their tests are going. It is certainly not too much to ask - indeed it is essential - that the HSE and CervicalCheck, which is part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (14 Jul 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The National Screening Service’s (NSS) population-based screening programmes BreastCheck, CervicalCheck, BowelScreen and Diabetic RetinaScreen were temporarily paused in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These measures aligned with the National Public Health Emergency Team’s (NPHET) recommendations which have as their goal to minimise the spread of COVID 19. In...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...and public services such as healthcare. That is what throwing in the towel looks like and that is what it does. Let us go back to last Friday. After we launched the plan for the elimination of cervical cancer, I visited the new outpatient building for the Rotunda maternity hospital. The building is just off O’Connell Street. It is a €45 million investment by the...