Results 161-171 of 171 for cervical speaker:Stephen Donnelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (22 Jan 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 341. To ask the Minister for Health if a compensation tribunal will be established immediately in order that women terminally ill with cervical cancer can have their claims processed as quickly as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2428/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (22 Jan 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if women who find their cervical smear tests were misread and have now been diagnosed with cancer can avail of the care package being provided to the 221 women whose smears were audited by CervicalCheck; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2429/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (22 Jan 2019)

Stephen Donnelly: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for cervical smear test results; the number of women waiting for a repeat smear test following his commitment to provide same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2430/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Screening Programmes (21 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: ...written to the woman and apologised. That is on the public record. As I am sure the Minister of State knows, Vicky Phelan has said that the situation is eerily similar to her own experience with cervical screening. Crumlin hospital has declined to comment publicly on the case or to confirm whether there are similar cases, and the Minister, Deputy Harris, has stated that he is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (21 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 154. To ask the Minister for Health the proactive outreach actions being taken to contact and offer additional screening services for those with a high risk profile for cervical cancer in view of the controversy surrounding the CervicalCheck screening service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27145/18]

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

Stephen Donnelly: Now, I believe there is potentially a causal issue. It relates to what I regard as misleading information given to the women. The briefing note states:As with all screening tests, cervical screening is not 100% accurate. Screening cannot give a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer and a negative screening result does not mean that the disease will not develop in future. That is...

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

Stephen Donnelly: Is this group as a population likely to be different from the 1,400 to 1,500 from CervicalCheck? Is it a randomised group? Should we assume that approximately 200 women from this group may also have an existing diagnosis of cervical cancer but have not been told about a previous error or false negative?

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...a useful segue into the next question, which many people have been asking since the Minister made his statement last night. If there are approximately 3,000 women known to have been diagnosed with cervical cancer, why has the national screening service only been engaging in audits on less than 1,500 of those? Why were the other 1,500 not under the remit of CervicalCheck?

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

Stephen Donnelly: I want to challenge that statement for several reasons. We have a circular from CervicalCheck, saying to doctors that in instances where the woman is still alive they should use their judgement, and that in instances where the woman is deceased it should be noted on the file. We also have a letter from Dr. Hickey, Vicky Phelan's consultant, to CervicalCheck, addressed to Dr. Gráinne...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: ...this evening. There is a great deal of public confusion, fear and anger on this issue. Women have asked me if they might get a phone call to tell them the caller is very sorry but the woman has cervical cancer. We know that is not the case and that the women who will be contacted have been already diagnosed with cancer. However, it gives an indication of the level of fear out there. I...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: The withholding of important information from patients is completely unacceptable. What we have seen so far in the case of CervicalCheck is nothing short of an outrage. It constitutes a fundamental breach of trust between patients, their doctors and the HSE and it has led to widespread fear and anger across Ireland in the past few days, and I will speak to that shortly. Before I do so, I...