Results 81-96 of 96 for cervical speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papilloma virus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papillomavirus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from NIAC...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papillomavirus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from NIAC...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papillomavirus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from NIAC...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Prices (30 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...be applicable specifically to either men or women. By way of example, the Regulations include provision for such medical treatments as a prostatectomy or testicular biopsy (in the case of men) and cervical biopsy or maternity services (in the case of women). The health services and procedures provided by minimum benefit should be viewed as a cohort of procedures that are important...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cancer Strategy Implementation (28 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...National Cancer Strategy 2006-2015, the establishment of the National Cancer Control Programme in 2007 and full national coverage by the BreastCheck Screening Programme which commenced in 2007 and CervicalCheck screening programmes which started in 2008. It is expected that future studies will confirm that survival rates have improved further as a result of these initiatives. The latest...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...is available on my Department's website (www.health.gov.ie). There are no plans to introduce a vaccine damage compensation scheme at this time. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (3 Feb 2015)

Leo Varadkar: International evidence recommends population based screening programmes for bowel, breast and cervical cancer. The HSE provides cancer screening programmes for these three cancers. BowelScreen, the National Bowel Screening Programme, commenced offering free bowel screening nationwide to men and women aged 60 to 69 years in late 2012. In 2014 BowelScreen issued 266,000 invitations. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Regulation (21 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...be applicable specifically to either men or women. By way of example, the Regulations include provision for such medical treatments as a prostatectomy or testicular biopsy (in the case of men) and cervical biopsy or maternity services (in the case of women). Therefore, the broad base line of procedures provided by minimum benefit should not be looked at in gender specific or...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: CervicalCheck, the National Cervical Screening Programme, was introduced in 2008 and offers free smear tests to women aged 25-60. International best practice recommends that a population based cervical screening programme should target women aged from 25 or 30 years to 60 or 65 years. Invasive cervical cancer is extremely rare in women aged under 25, with less than 5 women in this age...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Research (14 Jan 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...lifestyles to reduce the risk of many chronic diseases, including cancer. The focus in this regard is on prevention and on keeping people healthier for longer. Also, our national breast, cervical and bowel screening programmes have a key role to play in saving lives by detecting cancer at an early stage. The World Health Organisation estimates that more than 30% of cancer deaths...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Cancer Screening Programmes (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: ...cancers at an early and more easily treatable stage. The HSE's national screening service operates three other population-based screening programmes, in addition to BreastCheck. These are CervicalCheck, the national cervical screening programme which provides free smear tests for women between the ages of 25 and 60 years; BowelScreen, the national bowel screening programme which commenced...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (27 Jan 2009)

Leo Varadkar: Question 410: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the turnaround time for cervical smears analysed by a company (details supplied); if she is satisfied with this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1258/09]

Vaccination Programme: Motion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2008)

Leo Varadkar: ...to make and I do not propose to repeat or labour the arguments already made. Previously, I worked for a time in the gynaecologic oncology services in St. James's Hospital and I know something of cervical cancer. I have treated patients who subsequently died from the disease. I have seen the extent to which it is a horribly mutilating disease. I have also seen young women lose fertility...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (5 Feb 2008)

Leo Varadkar: Question 256: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that mortality rates for cervical cancer here are rising; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3245/08]

Written Answers — General Medical Services Scheme: General Medical Services Scheme (6 Nov 2007)

Leo Varadkar: Question 185: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if there are individuals or groups who may receive the cervical cancer vaccine on the GMS or without charge in some other way; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27175/07]