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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Of the extra people, the 90,000 plus who entered the system for smears between 2017 and 2018, what proportion were women engaging with the system for the first time, is a tenth, a third, half?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: In terms of the transition to HPV testing, did somebody say it would take two years to get it up and running and is that from now or then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: We heard from Dr. Denton, who came in with Dr. Scally, that it could be done within a year. That was six months ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Mr. McCallion has talked about trawling the world, does that mean the witnesses are all physically going places?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: To Australia?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Australia aims to eradicate cervical cancer in ten years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Dr. Doherty said the programme is suspended in other jurisdictions. I assume that is to draw a line in the sand in moving from one to the other. I imagine that in the Irish situation because of the complexities in the past two years, we would not want to see any suspension of the programme. We have had enough difficulty I would imagine. I just want to make sure this is not soft selling a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I have a brief follow-on from that. If a woman in her mid-20s turns up with symptoms, for example bleeding, and a family history, is she prioritised? Those having a colposcopy are prioritised, as Dr. Doherty has outlined to Deputy Durkan, as are those who are HPV positive. Are women who turn up with symptoms also prioritised? For example, if two 30 year old women turn up, one with no...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: They leapfrog the CervicalCheck programme and go to the clinical setting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: For colposcopy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: What sort of timeframe is involved for that 30 year old symptomatic woman?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: What timeframe is involved in that? Is it two weeks, one month or six months?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: At the risk of being accused of catching whatever Deputy Durkan has, I will try to keep it as brief as possible. We have the benefit of hindsight. We have heard many history lessons and assumptions this morning. I am keen to make it clear because I have been straight on this since the start, when the offer of an additional smear was given. Mr. McCallion will correct me if I am wrong...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I will keep it as tidy as possible. Reference was made to scaremongering. The normal response from most women was one of terror that no one had read the smear, although it had been tested three years or two and a half years before. There was almost a perception that it was on a shelf somewhere and no one had looked at it. It is fine looking back at these things. Let us take ourselves...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: No, a member did. I am wondering where the evidence was for that comment was?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: The Minister is not here to defend himself either.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: We can get it back on the audio and have it retracted next week. Dr. Doherty referred to the HPV "reflex". Was that the word she used?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Can she elaborate on that? We are in cervical screening and are transitioning to HPV. If there is HPV reflex going on, would it be fair to say that we are in a transition period? I thought it was a move from "A" to "B" but it is really a transition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It is on the same slide or product-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Kate O'Connell: When did the reflex test start? Has it always been in place?