Results 1-20 of 41 for cervical speaker:Kate O'Connell

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

Kate O'Connell: Mr. O'Brien said the following in his opening statement: "While it is recognised that no screening test is 100% accurate, cervical screening is the most effective method of reducing a woman's risk of developing cervical cancer." I have to hand a couple of studies from recent years that suggest cervical screening is an effective method to reduce the incidence of such cancer but Mr. O'Brien...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health (5 Jul 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is important. I am not against the practice, but we want to make sure we are getting value for taxpayers' money. With regard to cervical cancer screening, Mr. Breslin explained very well about the trigger and so on, which I totally understand, but we are still not randomly auditing. Obviously, there are the women who have the diagnosis of cervical cancer, but are there proposals to do...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Getting the drug to treat hepatitis was a phenomenal achievement but I compare it with cervical cancer. Australia is heading towards eradicating cervical cancer within ten years. This started in 2004 and we are now in 2018. While the HSE has made good steps, it has been with the low-hanging fruit and good advances in drug treatment. I do not see the same people being successful in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ..., if the witnesses have that information? I do not want to repeat questions that were already asked and I have been keeping an eye on what has been going on. In terms of the eradication of cervical cancer, and we have spoken here before about the Australians being on track to eradicate cervical cancer within ten years from when they started, how we are we doing with our target? I know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...it there. There is a bit of confusion here. Let us say that Deputy Durkan has a laboratory and he is testing for other things, perhaps to do with other human or animal health. He is not doing cervical screening but he decides he wants to branch out, add this to his workload and add cervical screening. His laboratory applies for ISO. Does he pick up the phone and ask for INAB to come out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...should not be from a particular age group just because people are available, and that provision is made for it to be truly representative. I am concerned by Mr. Teap's comments on the rates of cervical cancer. Cervical cancer rates in Ireland were rising higher than anywhere else before cervical cancer screening was introduced. When RCOG was before us for a private meeting - we will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am a little uncomfortable with this new quality assurance, QA, lead, a consultant-level position. We had many QA people already in cervical services. Do they still exist?

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: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Okay, this is reassuring. If there is a range of 70% sensitivity but in some cases it is 85% or 90%, if he was at the lower end, and if the patient cohort was young and unlikely to have cervical cancer, it could technically be an outlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: What about those people? Do the employees of CervicalCheck who are quality assurance experts work in cervical screening all the time?

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

Kate O'Connell: It is important that that message is gotten out there in terms of how aggressive cervical cancer is, the population it affects, that it has life-changing impacts and that despite the best efforts, somehow we still have a system that is fit for purpose.

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: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)

Kate O'Connell: ...if the figures get down to that level. If what elected Members and the HSE are doing is not helping, we need to do something else. There are 40 girls walking around today who will die from cervical cancer because of the reduction in the vaccination rate. They could be daughters of any of us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: If I may contribute briefly, Australia has HPV testing. It has been rolled out very successfully and it is in line to eradicate cervical cancer within the next ten years. How quickly was this testing rolled out? In an international context, what is the quickest the change from screening to HPV testing ever been done? How fast can we do it, if we do not let the laboratory that did 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)

Kate O'Connell: We heard evidence yesterday that in 2008 we had the highest rate of cervical cancer. Our slides were sent to another population group - the United States - where the parameters for testing are totally different and where those with private health insurance get smears. Was this looked at before this project began? Was epidemiological or population data looked at? It may be the case that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Registry Board: Chairperson Designate (31 May 2017)

Kate O'Connell: ...GPs. They go to random doctors here, there and everywhere and perhaps to consultants if they are having babies. There is no contact with the GP unless they go private. Sometimes diagnoses of cervical cancer and things of that nature can just fall between two stools. I have seen it with people who are well educated and from very good socio-economic backgrounds but who do not understand...

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

Kate O'Connell: ...wish to follow on from Senator Burke's comments about the impact of screening on the population's health. Perhaps it is not Dr. Doherty's area, but my understanding is that before the start of the cervical screening programme ten years ago we had the highest rate of cervical cancer in Europe, and we had done nothing to try to impact on that. I think Dr. Walker said at the private...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I will clarify to ensure that Mr. McCallion will revert with the correct information. MedLab was awarded the tender for CervicalCheck in May 2010. The laboratory did not open until August 2010 and did not obtain ISO accreditation for cervical screening until December 2011. I want to know whether it was testing smears without accreditation before December 2011. The same company - MedLab -...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Senator Colm Burke asked about where we are going now. What happened in the past was referred to but, in light of what has happened in recent weeks, it is important that there is confidence in the CervicalCheck programme. A lot of inroads have been made into treating cancer in Ireland in recent years and it is regrettable that this has caused such damage. There are people working in the...

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

Kate O'Connell: It is ten years since the cervical screening programme commenced, and Mr. O'Brien was there at the start, before moving to his role in the HSE. Can Mr. O'Brien assure me, the committee members and the wider public that he, as the head of the national cancer screening service and on his subsequent appointment as chief executive of the HSE was re-evaluating the CervicalCheck programme, auditing...