Results 141-160 of 171 for cervical speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (10 Dec 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 428. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied with the way in which women and their families were treated as part of the review by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in cervical cancer cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51654/19]

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...in the media about some cross-examination. I am not a lawyer, but to my mind it definitely crossed a line. As I said on Committee Stage, if a woman is on the stand and is being cross-examined in a cervical cancer case, and lawyers from the laboratories start bringing up her sex life and previous sexual activity, it seems to me that the implication they are trying to put forward is that...

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Report Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 2:In page 6, line 31, after “concerned,” to insert the following:“where that woman agreed to participating in the Review of Cervical Screening up to 3 months after the commencement of this Act,”. This is effectively the same as my Committee Stage amendment. I hope to be able to withdraw it. I would like the Minister, though, if he could, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...whose confidence in this programme has been shaken. My understanding of the programme is that it has been highly effective in terms of clinical outcomes, with about a 7% reduction year on year in cervical cancer that can be linked back to the start of the programme. It was not happening anyway. There is a link there that presumably is a causal relationship. As an ancillary, there will...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the tribunal in the first instance are those in the 221 Plus group. There is a second group comprising the 2,000 or so women who were on the National Cancer Registry as having been diagnosed with cervical cancer but about whose diagnoses CervicalCheck was not told. Those women were offered an audit to be carried out by the RCOG in the UK. Approximately half said "Yes". Under the Bill,...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I will move it and withdraw it. I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, line 30, after “concerned,” to insert the following: “where that woman agreed to participating in the Review of Cervical Screening up to 3 months after the commencement of this Bill, ”.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...do this now? Second, if we do something like this, must we have a perpetual tribunal in order that one could come back to the tribunal X number of years later to say one has had a recurrence of cervical cancer that one believes it is linked to the first one and to ask the tribunal to judge on it and therefore make one an award if it believes there is a link? Would it not be possible to...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...proceedings and am only going on reports, but I understand that women were being asked very personal questions about their past sex life, almost in a victim shaming line of questioning. By asking a woman who has cervical cancer about her sex life, presumably the implication is that it is partly her fault. The public reaction and the reaction in the Oireachtas to that was very strong....

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...of one's life thrown around in a court room or having well-heeled barristers delving into one's sex life in an attempt to paint a picture for the court that somehow it is one's own fault that one has cervical cancer and that the slides were missed. It is not easy at the best of times for someone in her full health and it must be next to impossible for a woman fighting this disease or...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...deeply worrying. Rightly or wrongly, it paints a picture of secrecy and confusion which Dr. Scally appropriately described as entirely unacceptable. It is not too much for women availing of the cervical screening service to be able to discover where their tests are going. It is certainly not too much to ask - indeed it is essential - that the HSE and CervicalCheck, which is part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (12 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the protocols for women to make use of the rapid access pathways in cases in which they need urgent medical assistance after cervical cancer screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24392/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (11 Jun 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 704. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) who has developed cervical cancer after she was given a false negative result by CervicalCheck can be given the supports and facilities provided to the patients in the official 221 Plus group despite the fact that her diagnosis was not as a result of the audit undertaken by CervicalCheck but arose instead after her referral to...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...centre. If they are faced with a hostile environment, people want to hold the information. It has to be safe for officials, HSE managers and our doctors. In the Joint Committee on Health today we discussed CervicalCheck with the Minister, Deputy Harris, at length. I put it forward as an example of what not to do. What happened? Dr. Flannelly set up CervicalCheck, built it up from the...

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

Stephen Donnelly: 127. To ask the Minister for Health if he sought to meet with the senior management of CervicalCheck after receiving a 2018 memo CervicalCheck: Patient claim following a diagnosis of cervical cancer, Briefing note for Minister Harris or after the case referred to in the memo became public on 25 April 2019 or at any time before expressing publicly that he did not have confidence in them. [16858/19]

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

Stephen Donnelly: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cervical smear tests provided by the national screening service in each of the years 2012 to 2018. [9392/19]

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...samples and cannot put them through quickly enough? Does the delay arise when abnormalities are detected and there is referral to a colposcopist? Dr. McKenna noted, although not in relation to cervical cancer, that there are between 28,000 and 30,000 people awaiting a gynaecology outpatient appointment. Are growing colposcopist waiting lists one of the choke points causing the...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: I will be sharing time with Deputy O'Loughlin. I will focus my attention on the latest developments concerning the CervicalCheck screening programme and, more particularly, on the long delays that are being experienced by women all over Ireland. I would first like to take the opportunity, however, to acknowledge the women and families who came forward last year. Putting themselves into the...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: ...of the free rechecks. Dr. Colin Goldschmidt wrote that there had been a fivefold increase in requests for smear tests which was resulting in "increasing delays in the delivery of results to CervicalCheck". That is the chief executive officer essentially asking the Minister to stop the smear test rechecks. I believe he offered to fly to Dublin to meet the Minister in order to talk that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (29 Jan 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the number of repeat cervical smear tests conducted since May 2018 that are now invalid owing to delays in assessing them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4339/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (24 Jan 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the status of measures to expand access to Pembrolizumab to all clinically suitable women with cervical cancer. [3688/19]