Results 45,021-45,040 of 49,836 for speaker:Stephen Donnelly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes. It was part of the role of Ms Mannion's predecessor to be aware of the matter too. From the perspectives of Ms Mannion and ourselves, it is great that she came in and found this issue. From the public's perspective, it should not matter who is in the role within the HSE. My next question is not specifically directed at Ms Mannion. When did the HSE become aware that we had...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I repeat, how long has the HSE known about this matter?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Has the HSE issued a directive to stop the practice? Does the HSE still stand behind the practice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I wish to ask the professional bodies how serious a clinical risk this is. From the public's perspective, we have heard about CervicalCheck. Doctors are withholding important information from patients in some cases to the point that, when referring to the ethical duty of consultants and activities relating to CervicalCheck, the Taoiseach said in the Chamber yesterday that the guidelines...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: If I could ask Dr. Ryan for the short version of that answer. Does he believe there is a clinical risk attached?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I apologise for intervening, but for members of the public who are watching this and who are not aware of the details of the High Court case, could Dr. Ryan give me a "Yes" or "No" answer. Is there clinical risk attached to what we are talking about?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: In Dr. Ryan's professional opinion-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: -----is there a clinical; risk attached to what we are discussing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: With the Chair's indulgence, could I get the opinion of Dr. Gilligan and the Medical Council on whether is there a clinical risk to the Irish public in the context of consultants who are not on the specialist register and who are working or acting as specialists?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: Could Dr. Breslin say that again?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I am trying to listen to the answer. Perhaps Dr. Breslin could repeat it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Chair and I apologise to Deputy Durkan for that. I will seek an opportunity to reciprocate his generosity. I have one question for the Medical Council in respect of CervicalCheck and the duty of candour and duty of disclosure. As I said earlier, in the Dáil yesterday, the Taoiseach stated that these "are not optional". He was talking about the duty of a doctor to tell a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses and the Chair.
- 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: I thank the witnesses for their time. I want to start with the number of women who are affected. Of the 208 women identified, how many have been told at this stage?
- 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: Mr. O'Brien has said that we do not know exactly how many people are involved in this new group. To give the public some sense of the scale we are talking about, a back of the envelope calculation would suggest 250 to 300 new cases a year for ten to ten and a half years would represent approximately 3,000 women. Just under 1,500 have already been identified to CervicalCheck. Are we talking...
- 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: Is this group as a population likely to be different from the 1,400 to 1,500 from CervicalCheck? Is it a randomised group? Should we assume that approximately 200 women from this group may also have an existing diagnosis of cervical cancer but have not been told about a previous error or false negative?
- 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: Many women in Ireland will be worried until we have answers to these questions. When is the HSE likely to be able to identify exactly how many women in this additional group are in the same situation as the 208 who are being contacted at the moment?
- 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: The public will want to know when the additional women likely to be affected are likely to be contacted. Are we talking about a matter of days or weeks? Will it take two or three months?
- 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: If Dr. Henry cannot confirm whether we are talking about a matter of weeks or months, is it the case that it could be a matter of months before these women are informed?
- 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: Are we talking about a number of weeks?