Results 21-40 of 41 for cervical speaker:Kate O'Connell

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: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: ...spoke about the counselling or information given to people when they went for a smear and the idea that when one's smear returned a clear result, everything was fine. According to the report, CervicalCheck organised the training of those responsible for imparting that information, so it is, surely, at fault for the poor training in that regard. My main concern is that before any of this...

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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: ...will land out of the sky are additional and have never approached a GPs surgery. I remember evidence to the committee said that most of the women are already attending their GPs for contraception, cervical smears and so on, so they are pre-existing patients. That does not seem to have entered the conversation. I know it is a new service, but these women already exist. There has been...

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: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Kate O'Connell: ...medical people are becoming more annoyed because we are now undoing all the good that was done through the screening process in this country over ten years. We will probably reverse our 7% reduction in cervical cancer rates. The whole negativity around this is bad for public health, which, as far as I am concerned, it is supposed to be the witnesses' job to protect. I am a Government...

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: CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (16 May 2018)

Kate O'Connell: -----and would have noticed when she returned from the UK that we had a very high level of cervical cancer relative to our European counterparts, and that there was a critical need. She became highly aware, as a witness mentioned earlier, that we are doing about the same amount of smear tests now as we did ten years ago. They simply are being done differently. Everybody is getting a go at...

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

Kate O'Connell: ...too much after six months, I could understand it. However, it seems a bit confusing at this point in the conversation. I wish to return to the issue of open disclosure, with reference to the cervical screening situation. Mr. O'Brien referred to the open disclosure practice of the HSE non-clinical staff. Is there any letter or any record of any non-clinical staff member being told...

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: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. Mr. O'Brien, initially there was a two-year contract for the outsourcing of cervical smears, which took place under his watch in 2008. Was the two-year contract renewed or was it audited in order for the State to continue the contract? Mr. O'Brien was in charge at the time. In 2008, the decision was made by the then Minister to send the smears...

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...

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...

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: ...for Mr. O'Brien. How can Irish clinicians conduct multi-disciplinary teamwork with people in different time zones, who use different nomenclature and perhaps different terminology regarding cervical cytology? That is the first question. Second, from the time the cervical screening programme was introduced, and we did not have the capacity in Ireland because there was a backlog, was any...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: ...this clearly is a systems failure. The tragedy of it is that if things do not happen in the appropriate timeframe, which appears to be the case, the disease progresses quickly. The key thing with cervical cancer is the three, six and nine years. In young women in particular it tends to be aggressive and not to be diagnosed early. I booked an additional check myself this morning. It is...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Kate O'Connell: ...that we start inquiring as to the violence of the rape, whether it was committed when she was conscious or unconscious, whether she needed medical intervention, were there vaginal tears requiring sutures, cervical or anal surgery? We heard from many experts in obstetrics and gynaecology, and law, at the committee. There is no "typical victim"; there is no "typical scenario". Do the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Kate O'Connell: ...we start inquiring as to the violence of the rape, whether it was committed when she was conscious or unconscious, whether she needed medical intervention for vaginal tears requiring sutures or cervical surgery? Do those on this committee, those outside this committee in the Upper and Lower Houses, and those outside these walls in the real world think that the punishment that should be...

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: 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: Vaccination Programme: Discussion (11 May 2017)

Kate O'Connell: ...from the HSE and the Department down to the ground to deal with this. Confidence has been mentioned. I am not sure where Dr. Brennan works. My experience of the public system for the treatment of cervical cancer is that the system is very good. We spend a lot of time in here complaining and saying everything is awful and everybody is on a trolley, but my understanding on the ground...