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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Whether it is thought fair or not, I am trying to get to the bottom of what Mr. Casey is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank all of the witnesses for their attendance. I recognise all of the work they do in trying to save lives. The audit on open disclosure kicked off this discussion. It was stated earlier that BreastCheck looks forward to implementing open disclosure in early 2019, in respect of which I have two questions. First, how can it be that the HSE implements open disclosure in 2013 and a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I apologise for cutting across Professor O'Doherty but in the interests of time, is the answer to the question that the breast screening service did not implement it in 2013 because the HSE 2013 policy did not apply to what the service was doing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: It will seem strange to the public that the HSE introduced a policy in 2013 and that five years later, parts of the HSE are proposing to implement it next year. On the audit, we know that CervicalCheck introduced an audit for all diagnoses from 2014 onwards and that it also audited a batch from before then. As I understand it, currently in BreastCheck there is not an automatic look-back...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: My question is whether there is an automatic audit, as is the case in CervicalCheck?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that. My question is whether that process is automatic. In regard to CervicalCheck, my understanding is that once there is a diagnosis, as part of its internal processes a look-back is done at previous screening regardless of whether a doctor or patient seeks it. My question is whether that is the case in BreastCheck.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: No, I am not. Every time there is a diagnosis of breast cancer,-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: -----is there a process that automatically performs a look-back? Yes or no?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Just so that I understand, does that mean that, since 2011, there is an outstanding batch of diagnostics? Let me try to ask in a simpler way. Are the tests of women who were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012 and onwards being examined retrospectively?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Only if they have asked.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: As of now, it has been done up to 2011.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses. Where it has been identified, and we do not know for the past seven years' worth of patients or diagnoses-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Where a false negative is identified, is there a process whereby the clinician and-or the patient is informed of it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Help me bring the two positions together. From the perspective of the process as opposed to the clinical relationship with the patient, everything up to 2011 has been done automatically and it is the intention to go through 2011 onwards.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: At the same time, the witnesses are saying that, on an ongoing basis, it is happening for patients today anyway, just not automatically.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Do the witnesses have a sense of what percentage this voluntary way covers compared with an automated process that is up to date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: How many want to know?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: What is it here roughly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Just so that we understand, it is rare among the 5% or the 45%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: But every patient is offered it.