Results 1-20 of 44 for cervical speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the quality assurance site visits to laboratory providers since outsourcing in 2008 of the cervical screening programme. [20946/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Health to set out in tabular form the detection rates of pre-cancerous abnormal cells discovered by each of the four laboratories contracted to conduct the cervical screening tests (details supplied) since 2008 for each of the laboratories concerned. [21805/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 178. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details on the reports and studies relied on by his Department in 2008 and subsequently to support the decision to outsource the cervical screening programme. [21806/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (17 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: 179. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the submissions made by laboratories tendering for contracts for the cervical screening programme in 2008 and on subsequent occasions. [21807/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 89. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he will take to insure there is sufficient capacity and resources to conduct the new HPV cervical screening testing here without outsourcing the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28377/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (26 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: 166. To ask the Minister for Health if screeners in US labs have the same levels or comparable levels of qualifications for screeners who examine cervical check slides here. [38942/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (14 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the requests from women for their slides from the cervical screening process by laboratory (details supplied). [47361/18]

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

Bríd Smith: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department and HSE officials are refusing to release information that would detail the number of false negative tests in the cervical screening programme by each laboratory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5368/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (6 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 1190. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who are newly diagnosed with cervical cancer must pay for their own independent reviews, especially in circumstances in which all previous smears were normal before the cancer diagnosis. [36171/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (24 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: ..., 1191 and 1197 of 6 September 2019, if a direct response will issue on the specific question regarding a patient having to fund an independent review of her smears if she has been diagnosed with cervical cancer. [38526/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (24 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 323. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1190, 1191 and 1197 of 6 September 2019, if a response will issue on whether the financial burden on patients with cervical cancer will be removed; and if the HSE will fund an independent review of smears if requested. [38527/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 Oct 2019)

Bríd Smith: 255. To ask the Minister for Health the laboratories from which the 221 cases of misdiagnosed smears under Cervical Check came, by laboratory and by year in tabular form. [40777/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 2993. To ask the Minister for Health the companies currently operating the HPV cervical screening programme; the percentage of work per laboratory and company; the length of time the current contracts operate for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39808/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (6 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 1197. To ask the Minister for Health if women diagnosed with cervical cancer that were not included in the previous review process can request a review of their screening history; if so, if the HSE will fund and support such a review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36214/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (28 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 28. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the two site visits conducted on the laboratories that conducted the cervical screening programme over the ten years of the programme to be a sufficient way to ensure standards and quality of the screening process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28379/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (6 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 1191. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients who were diagnosed or will be diagnosed in the coming months as having cervical cancer will not be able to avail of the HSE cancer audit to review their smears in order to avoid a financial burden on cancer patients who wish to have their smears reviewed. [36172/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...Health if the exact same standards of measuring of that which constitutes a discordant slide upon review as opposed to a concordant slide are employed by the ongoing slide review involving cases of cervical cancer in the UK referenced by a college (details supplied) and its own methodology used in a recent review. [51753/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 766. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to move the cervical screening process to a HPV test; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many clinicians internationally (details supplied) recommend co-testing pap plus HPV; if consideration has been given to same; the costs and so on of co-testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25049/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (28 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...ask the Minister for Health if he will release or instruct the HSE to release the details requested by numerous members of Dáil Éireann in relation to each of the laboratories that conducted the cervical screening programme, specifically a clear comparison on detection rates and false negative statistics for each laboratory in view of delays with the Scally report; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 526. To ask the Minister for Health the laboratories and companies that will conduct the new HPV testing for cervical cancer screening; if more than one company is involved; the expected percentage of the overall testing to be done by each laboratory concerned; the location of the laboratories and institutions concerned; his plans to repatriate the service fully here; and the criteria and the...