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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: My view on this issue is that the cross-border directive was specifically designed at a European level. They started it in 2007 and it went through and came into Ireland in 2012 eventually. It was transposed into Irish law. It is an effective way of using that mechanism. If the funding is refused, I believe it is a judicial review issue to get an overall decision on that. That is one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: We have approximately 160 obstetricians and gynaecologists in this country. Surely it is an easy mechanism to get information out to them and that they would be aware of these special clinics. Is Ms Martin saying that women are not being referred, either by GPs or by consultants under whose care they are, to these specialist clinics?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: Does Ms Martin accept that if we are talking about a figure of 750 who had this treatment-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: How many did Ms Martin say? Apologies, I did not get the figure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: In relation to the collection of data, as I said, there are approximately 160 or 170 obstetricians and gynaecologists in the country. Surely the number of obstetricians carrying out this procedure would have been quite small in real terms. Would it have been 15 or 20?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: Surely it would be easy to go through their records to identify the real numbers we are talking about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: What is the mechanism? Why is that not being dealt with?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: Ms Martin is saying that there were only 19 consultants dealing with this issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: That is what I am saying. Nineteen put it in and we are talking about a period from 2000 to 2018.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: We are talking about 20 years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: In real terms, if one is talking about 19 consultants over that period, and maybe two or three would have retired halfway through, surely we could get all of those and that information as regards identifying the real numbers. The other issue is about making sure that every one of those patients is made aware of the follow-up care that is now available in these clinics.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: I thank Ms Martin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: Does Dr. O'Sullivan accept that 40 women attending the Cork clinic, which, I assume, covers all of Munster, is quite a small number in view of the overall concerns raised by women across the country? Is there an explanation as to why the numbers attending the clinic are so small?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: I thank Dr. O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: Could I deal with the issue of numbers? I was a little concerned when I heard Dr. Murphy say that up to 10,000 women may have had mesh used and that procedure followed, yet only slightly more than 100 people have attended specialist clinics. We heard earlier this morning that there is concern that a large number of women have gone through the procedure who feel that they have not received...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: People are looking to get treatment abroad because they are not happy with the service in Ireland. Does Dr. Murphy accept that there may be a scenario where people who have been reviewed in Cork or Dublin are not happy with the outcome, and that there is a need for a better approach on this? People are going off and trying to get assistance from elsewhere without any support from the health...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: For instance, I came across a scenario that is nothing to do with gynaecology or obstetrics where a consultant here refused point-blank to allow a person to get treatment in a particular area. The consultant required him to undergo an operation, while in fact he could get treatment abroad that did not require an operation and there was a stand-off between the patient and the consultant. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: Does Dr. Murphy not accept that there are people here in Ireland who lack trust in the system because of what has happened to them, regardless of what advice is provided, and sometimes it might be a better option to allow the person to avail of options abroad? Obviously, I am talking about staying within the European Union because the cross-border healthcare directive provides for that....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: Ms Donohoe is talking about access within the EU. Does that now exclude access to treatment in the UK because of Brexit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaginal Mesh Implants: Discussion (29 Jun 2022)
Colm Burke: Whereas previously they would have been able to go to the UK.