Results 301-320 of 1,460 for cervical

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 Sep 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Stephen Donnelly: The Health Service Executive, National Screening Service (NSS) has responsibility for four population-based screening programmes in Ireland CervicalCheck, Diabetic RetinaScreen, BowelScreen and BreastCheck. I am pleased that in the Programme for Government we have committed to extend the free screening age range in BreastCheck to those aged 69. This is an important development for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The Scally Report made a series of recommendations in order to ensure that all cervical cancer cases are known to the CervicalCheck programme, and that audits should be an important component of cervical screening based on good clinical practice. This led to the establishment by the HSE of Expert Reference Groups to recommend how interval cancer audit processes in the screened population...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Sep 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...is due to return next month. It cannot happen soon enough because we know that early intervention, particularly in cancer, and catching cancer cases early is critical to good outcomes, whether in cervical, breast, prostate or other cancers. We will look at the report and I will make sure that the Department and the Minister for Health in particular comes back to the Deputy on the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (26 Aug 2020)

Dr. Colm Henry: As we announced before, the cervical cancer screening programme resumed in the first week of July with invitations issued in a phased and incremental way. We expect that all invitations suspended until that time will have been caught up on by the end of October and that any cases delayed during 2020 will be caught up on by March 2021. Capacity in all three screening...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jul 2020)

Sharon Keogan: ...Seanad a couple of months ago, I thought that I had a bumpy ride when I got on the Cú Chulainn roller coaster at Tayto Park. I have had a bumpier ride since I came in here a few weeks ago. The cervical cancer crisis overseen by the previous Government continues. It has been compounded by the recent tragic death of Ruth Morrissey. Cervical checks are due to restart soon but breast...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (30 Jul 2020)

Matt Carthy: 1227. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 540 of 13 May 2020, if the reason a person (details supplied) experienced a delay between providing a cervical screening sample on 22 November 2018 and receiving a positive cancer diagnosis based on that sample on 25 October 2019 will be examined in view of the fact the HSE has not provided a response; the reason for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (30 Jul 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: The CervicalCheck Steering Committee was established in June 2018 to provide oversight and assurance on the implementation of key decisions taken by Government in relation to CervicalCheck and to work to ensure a sustainable and effective cervical screening programme in the interests of women’s health. The Committee is chaired by my Department and membership includes senior officials...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jul 2020)

Victor Boyhan: Last week I spoke about the cervical cancer scandal. I requested that we look at it and asked that a Minister attend here. Since I spoke there was an article in the Sunday Independentby Vicky Phelan. For those who may not have read it, she wrote a compelling and moving appeal to what she described as those in power - the people in the Houses of the Oireachtas. Sadly we do not have Vicky...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (29 Jul 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: ...cancers in Ireland.  A well organised screening programme, when combined with HPV vaccination for boys and girls, will help to achieve that goal. The Programme for Government commits to supporting the CervicalCheck Screening Programme and promoting the uptake of the HPV vaccine. In 2009, the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) recommended HPV (human...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (28 Jul 2020)

Alan Kelly: 1067. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for the work of the CervicalCheck tribunal from establishment; when he plans to appoint new members to the CervicalCheck tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18980/20]

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020: Second Stage (24 Jul 2020)

Sharon Keogan: ...the leader who will champion women's health. People cannot get bowel cancer screening and breast screening now until September. That is wrong on so many levels. We have not even come out of the cervical cancer crisis. That has been the biggest scandal in this State. I ask the Minister to not let that happen to the women of the State. They are the future mothers of the generations to...

Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...be done in the HSE. I praise the staff who have always worked hard, especially with Covid. This will have a significant impact on our health service. It was bad enough as it was. The impact on people waiting for cervical smear tests, breast checks, bowel screening or whatever it is is substantial since those have all been put back. Procedures for children requiring orthodontic...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jul 2020) See 1 other result from this debate

Victor Boyhan: ...That would allow us to amend the schedule if we so wished, which is important. I am happy to discuss with the Leader outside the Chamber how we can continue to work well together. Yesterday, the cervical cancer campaigner, Ruth Morrissey, was laid to rest, having died on Sunday. She was one of many courageous women. I also think of people like Emma Mhic Mhathúna and Irene Teap....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Consultancy Contracts (23 Jul 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: It is my intention that Specialists in Public Health Medicine will be awarded consultant status, taking account of related proposals in Sláintecare, in the Scally Report (Cervical Check) and the Report of Crowe Horwath on the Specialty. It is also consistent with the Programme for Government commitment to reshape our public health system. This issue was being progressed as part of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020) See 4 other results from this debate

Micheál Martin: ...in favour of developing our own capacity on the testing front. We hope, with the passage of time and being in a position to deal with Covid once and for all, that we can then restore the national cervical screening programme, because its overall impact has been to prevent many cancers and prevent many women from dying. We cannot undermine that kind of work, which was ongoing prior to...

Death of Ruth Morrissey: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...in a very good-humoured, kind and touching way. She fought a long, hard battle with her illness and also fought very hard for her own rights to be vindicated in court. Ruth, along with many other brave women brought together by their diagnosis of this terrible illness, worked to highlight diagnostic failings in this country's CervicalCheck screening programme so that others would not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Jul 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: ...cancers in Ireland. A well organised screening programme, when combined with HPV vaccination for boys and girls, will help to achieve that goal. The Programme for Government commits to supporting the CervicalCheck Screening Programme and promoting the uptake of the HPV vaccine. In 2009, the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) recommended HPV (human papillomavirus)...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ..., and whichever Minister is responsible for the State Claims Agency should be brought before this House to explain why it is that it can do what it is doing. We have seen what happened regarding cervical cancer and various other areas. It is bloody well outrageous.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (17 Jul 2020) See 2 other results from this debate

Kathleen Funchion: I want to ask the Irish Cancer Society about cervical screening specifically. I am one of the final speakers so I apologise if this has been raised already. Does the society have any information or figures on how many women are waiting for retests, particularly in the Carlow-Kilkenny region? These would not be initial tests but retests in cases where there were symptoms. Given the delays...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening (Resumed) (17 Jul 2020)

Mr. Damien McCallion: This is a different set of circumstances from the situation that the Deputy referred to previously regarding cervical screening. We will need to monitor the take-up as we go. We can control some of that take-up and that is what we will try to do, with invitations and so on, to make sure that we align what is happening with invitations, general practice and also...