Results 2,321-2,340 of 3,336 for speaker:Kate O'Connell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: I asked before about the baseline from which we were operating. Today it was mentioned that colposcopy samples were blended in with regular smears. To me, that results in baseline distortion and one is just going to get bad data. This morning there is a big light shining on that distortion. I asked the question before of the HSE, when we were trying to get to where Dr. Scally got in his...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: One of the major concerns is the audit of the two-to-one cases; the language used included misreading and obvious cancer cells on the slides. This process has been ogoing ten years and there is a 25% to 30% limitation rate. Has it not improved over ten years? Has anything been done to reduce it to 19% or 20%? It seems strange that anything with a limitation rate has not improved over the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: The assumption of a difference between 12 and 18 months was decided on by CervicalCheck at that meeting. Was the decision based on international data, that is, for having a 12 to 18 months cut-off time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: I do not know of international data-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: On page 90, on the sixth line from the bottom, if I am reading it correctly, it is mentioned that the audit in the United Kingdom extended to a period of two years, or am I comparing apples and oranges?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: To support the six months period in the United Kingdom, what evidence was used?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: At this committee and the Committee of Public Accounts we have heard continually that the trigger for the audit was having cancer. At no point in our discussions did anyone ever mention a 12 to 18 months cut-off period. It was never mentioned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: The point is that if there is no description, one cannot be held accountable because no one knows what one's job is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: We earlier spoke about the counselling or information given to people when they went for a smear and the idea that when one's smear returned a clear result, everything was fine. According to the report, CervicalCheck organised the training of those responsible for imparting that information, so it is, surely, at fault for the poor training in that regard. My main concern is that before any...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: I ask Dr. Scally to do his best.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: It is normal enough.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: In parallel.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: Did Dr. Scally mean the organisation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: Right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: I thank Dr. Denton.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: Is there evidence that ten years ago, before this started, ISO accredited laboratories tendered for the work? Do we have any idea of the basket of tenders that came in for the job? Did Dr. Scally find anything? Did he find anything that showed that this decision to go with the potentially less-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: Is there any evidence to show that a decision was made to go with the certified analytics professional, CAP, model rather than the International Organization for Standardization, ISO, model? Did someone not actually read them? Does Dr. Scally have any evidence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)
Kate O'Connell: These laboratories were ISO accredited.