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Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Bernard Durkan: It is sad that we find ourselves at this juncture again, particularly because there have been a number of tragedies in the health service over the past number of years. There was the cervical screening campaign. There were issues where results were misread or improperly read. There were a number of other peculiar procedures that took place in this country, where women were subjected to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Feb 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 912. To ask the Minister for Health if cervical health checks will be repeated every two years in order to ensure best opportunities for early diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8423/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Bernard Durkan: ...for the replacement? When will know exactly what it is and will it be sufficient to meet the requirements? Those requirements are growing as opposed to otherwise. What stage are we at with cervical cancer screening and bringing that up to date with the results of tests and continuous screening? To what degree are patients continually informed, do they have to wait or are they asked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Independent Expert Panel Review into Cervical Screening: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Bernard Durkan: .... The same has to apply in this case. Professor Kitchener said that neither screening nor HPV vaccination alone is enough. He said we need both public health programmes if we are to make cervical cancer a rare disease in Ireland. Will Professor Kitchener expand on that point a little?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Independent Expert Panel Review into Cervical Screening: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Bernard Durkan: One of the things that created a problem was the imprecise nature of the cervical smear test. We discussed it last evening on the basis that nobody really knows if we have accuracy, or at least we do not. I speak for myself. A range between 70% and 100% allows for a wide margin of error. It is a bit like an opinion poll which has a margin of error. Are the witnesses satisfied, given the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Nov 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 351. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the women involved in the cervical smear test issues have had their cases dealt with to their satisfaction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49149/19]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: ...other two subjects first, when we have the benefit of hindsight, we generally are correct in everything. It is a case of 20-20 vision afterwards. However, we should remember one thing about the cervical smear tests. It was not the greatest day in the delivery of services to the women who tried to avail of those services when it transpired that some of them were not told the outcome. At...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Bernard Durkan: On the reassurance offered to women in presenting for cervical smear tests, are we satisfied adequate provision has been made to enable us to say, hand on heart, that they will not find themselves stressed out? I know that we have the best intentions, but that is not way things happen. Within reason, can we reassure women that everything has been put in place, that everything that can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)

Bernard Durkan: ...need enhanced laboratory facilities that are adequate to meet the present and growing population, which we do not currently have. It should be an urgent objective, particularly in the light of the cervical tests and the delays associated with them. We know that the practices were wrong because there was a practice of not telling the patients what the story was, which is appalling in any...

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?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (5 Feb 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 457. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which he remains in contact with victims of the cervical smear test issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5655/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (5 Feb 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 458. To ask the Minister for Health the alternatives now in operation or proposed to improve the reliability of cancer screening for women in the aftermath of the cervical smear test issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5656/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...have been deemed clear or not clear, whichever the case may be, but whose diagnoses have changed over a period for reasons that are not readily explicable. Is it possible to shed some light on this? The cervical smear test is not diagnostic, but a screening process and its accuracy can vary dramatically. The claim that it is 80% accurate is very misleading from the point of view of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (23 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 475. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the elimination of the backlog and waiting lists for women awaiting the results of cervical smear tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43925/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...at that level. I will come back to the laboratories in a moment. Incidentally, is it correct that 50,000 high-grade pre-cancerous changes in women were detected, reducing their risk of cervical cancer by 90%? Then, I note there was a 7% reduction in cancer generally from 2010 to 2015. Is that in cervical cancer or all cancers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Recognising that the cervical test is just a test or screening and not a diagnosis, how close together can screening and diagnosis be brought? Will they converge? Are we bringing the screening nearer to the diagnosis? Will the witnesses tell me more?

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (25 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: ...273: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the opinion of a number of eminent consultants and general practitioners that her recent proposal to defer the cervical cancer vaccination programme for 12 year olds is a retrograde step with serious health implications at a time when great emphasis is placed on early detection and prevention; that a...

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (25 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: ...served by meeting restrictive financial targets or dealing with health requirements in the first instance with particular reference to her recent decision to save €10 million by deferring the cervical cancer vaccination programme which will require increased corrective expenditure in due course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42784/08]

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (18 Nov 2008)

Bernard Durkan: Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will reconsider her decision to postpone the introduction of vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer in view of the fact that the amount of funding involved is relatively small in comparison to the potential benefits of that amount of expenditure having particular regard to the annual number of incidents of cervical...