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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: That is useful information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I am also conscious of the time. I was sitting here all morning as well, sad as it may be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: To what extent do the witnesses remain satisfied as to the accuracy of the Scally report? Will the issues raised be addressed in the fashion suggested? Will it be possible to deal with the issue that has become such a problem for so many women and their families?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I refer to the retaining of the services within the country, the use of laboratories within the country and the development of the necessary technology to ensure that the appropriate laboratory facilities are available. We have fairly sophisticated laboratories in the country, some of which are located in my constituency. I have raised queries about these in the past. We tend to refer...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: When will that be completed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Particular emphasis should be put on that, keeping in mind Dr. McKenna's wish to retain services nationally and to train the personnel nationally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: The early starters were the biggest offenders.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I also indicated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Is the glass half full or half empty?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: I wish to review the original audit. Perhaps the witnesses will remind me of how that took place. We dealt with this months ago but could they refresh my mind as to how it started? Did it relate to the number of women who were diagnosed with cancer after being cleared by the system? Was that the first issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Why did it exclude those patients?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: It was amended as a result of the lack of that facility at that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: It was not a case of some cancers being referred to the cancer registry but not all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: From the point of view of reassuring women now, how certain can we be that the system is accurate in determining the state of health of women who may be passing through the system now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: This has been very negative from the point of view of the women who have been affected and gone through much trauma, suffering and anxiety as a result. I have a question on information we got a long time ago but it is not obvious just now. How many women had a positive result from the screening? Did the screening detect on time and enable the women detected to receive treatment which, in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: We know that the number of women dying of cervical cancer has dropped, but is there any way of measuring the number of women who were screened, whose pre-existing condition was identified and who subsequently were treated successfully?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: To return to the screening and the look back, has the HSE been able to determine the number of women who were identified as having a pre-existing condition that required treatment? Has it the exact number?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Could we get it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: Can we get a reasonable number as of now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Bernard Durkan: With regard to the 221 women who had different results and ultimately some having satisfactory treatment and so forth, when they were discovered, did alarm bells go off anywhere in respect of the laboratories to which their tests had been sent? For example, if one received a report and suddenly discovered that ten, 15, 20 or whatever number of results showed a negative in terms of accuracy,...