Results 17,081-17,100 of 28,162 for speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: My general observation is that there has been a kind of industry of meetings and there has been very poor communication. The culture has been very internally focused with the patient on the outside. That is my impression. It was interesting that last night, when we were talking to Ms Vicky Phelan and Mr. Stephen Teap, they were looking for the patient to be at the centre of our health...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Can Mr. Connaghan keep it short because I have very little time and I have many questions to ask?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Last night Mr. Teap asked how many of the 209 women, 18 of whom have died, have been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Does Mr. Connaghan have that figure?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Yes. Obviously there are different outcomes depending on when one is told of a cancer diagnosis.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The outcome becomes much poorer if one is informed later. People can be diagnosed with a terminal cancer when there is nothing that can be done or when they must consider different types of experimental medicine. Can Mr. Connaghan give us some indication of the numbers? Does he have an idea of how many are at the very late stages?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I completely understand about confidentiality, but could we be given a ratio or some other understanding of where we are without the potential for individuals to be identified? That is essentially what I am looking for. I do not want to use up all of the time.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Can Dr. Holohan keep it very quick?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: So it is not captured. Okay. On open disclosure, the witnesses described exactly what is required in that regard. We have heard that the Medical Council guidelines were updated in recent years. There were clinicians on both sides of this discussion that went on over the period of a year and a half. There was the programme manager for CervicalCheck, who is a doctor, and there were...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I am looking at appendix 14 and the dialogue that happened. This was in the correspondence we received from Deputy Kelly. They are quite extensive letters, not short emails.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: The individual is a doctor.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Where do the Medical Council guidelines come in with regard to that doctor and the other doctors who were in dialogue with one another and not with the individuals? Can one make a complaint to the Medical Council in that regard? This is the absence of open disclosure. These are people who are governed by the Medical Council and these guidelines. Does that matter? Is there a sanction?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: To be clear, this would constitute a breach of open disclosure.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Another issue came as a bit of a surprise. There are many numbers being talked about. There was almost 1,500 and then there was another 1,500. I know that there are two different groups of individual cases. One relates to an audit and I am not quite sure to what the other group relates. There is confusion about the number of cases which were reviewed. I understand that some cancers...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Dr. Clough-Gorr is not getting to the question.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: There are people expecting telephone calls who may not receive one and who may have nothing to worry about. Part of what is causing the confusion is a misunderstanding about some of the numbers and some of the groups of people involved. It would be very helpful if we could drill down to identify the number of look-backs and what the categories were. When one is told it is not possible to...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I have two other questions, one of which relates to the HSE contract and the threat associated with the legal letters, initially in February. The HSE is the body paying for this work and setting the terms of the contract. Was the indemnity issue, whereby confidentiality was being sought, anticipated? Can the witnesses talk us through the control the HSE has over a contract for which it has...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I ask that we contact the Sate Claims Agency about the contract and indemnity because it seems we need to be thinking about contracts in the future where there is no legitimate communication with patients. They cannot be an impediment. Can we make contact with the State Claims Agency to gain some understanding of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Last week I asked the State Claims Agency whether there were other screening programmes, in respect of which court actions had been initiated. I was told that there were four in the case of BreastCheck. Are they in the same range in terms of what has emerged? There are 11 in regard to cervical screening. We do not know whether all 11 relate to the same thing. I presume they do. Have the...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: According to Deputy Jonathan O’Brien, we were told last week that they were on the basis of misdiagnosis.

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Can it be recalled?