Results 21-40 of 44 for cervical speaker:Bríd Smith

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]

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...will mostly be in primary care centres located in communities. It could also be in an IFPA clinic or a Well Woman Centre. The GP is the person with whom one makes the appointment but one might need a cervical smear, injection, flu jab or some kind of diabetes check-up and one will often see the nurse. The practitioner runs the clinic and the nurse may deliver the service. The GP still...

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]

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I wish to start by stating something obvious. I am not being smart, but I hope it is obvious that I am a woman, that I have access to CervicalCheck services and that I support the screening programme. I have received a lot of criticism for scaremongering. I am not scaremongering; rather, I am querying why the outsourcing issue has not been properly addressed. Privatisation and outsourcing...

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 (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: 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]

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...a failing public system. A person born into a lower socio-economic group has, on average, four years less to live than someone from an upper professional group. The higher rates of lung, stomach and cervical cancers in deprived areas mean that there is a lower chance of survival. The real scandal is that these facts have been known to us for a very long time but the political...

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]

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...and the Tuam mother and baby home. However, we still have a great deal to learn about how we treat women's health. We need to bring closure quickly to the questions of symphisiotomy and the cervical cancer scandal. That line in the sand is gone for the old conservative religious dogma of this country and the tide is gushing in. The Dáil needs to look seriously over the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chairman for letting me in and apologise for being late. I have two brief questions, one of which follows from Dr. Regan's remarks. I want to ask about the measures taken by the cervical cancer national cancer screening services quality assurance in cytopathology. Quality assurance site visits to laboratory providers is listed as one of the things that must be undertaken,...

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]

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: .... They say it is great to have competition as it brings down prices and makes more efficiency. It actually does not. It creates dangerous situations for women's health and lives. From the data the national cervical screening programme compiles, we can find out quickly and succinctly the rates of detection. This will allow us to compare the misdiagnosis rates coming from labs...

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]

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...know that Clinical Pathology Laboratories, CPL, tried to gag Vicky Phelan but she would not acquiesce. CPL is the sister company of MedLab in Sandyford and we are still using it to screen women's cervical tests. Even if we accept the bona fides of the Minster for Health, Deputy Harris, in regard to not knowing about this issue, there is still a problem because the chief medical officer...

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach promised the women of Ireland that they can be retested by their general practitioner, GP. That is very welcome because cervical testing and screening is very important. However, questions arise. In my office alone there are three women who cannot get appointments with their doctors. There is a crisis with GPs services. One woman can get an appointment at the end of May....

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

Bríd Smith: ...Why would the company have settled with her if there was not a difficulty? I would like a brief answer. I have read the press release from the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine on cervical screening. It has called on the Minister for Health to publish the results of the 2014 audit. When I asked the Minister in the Dáil last night to do that, he said there were...

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

Bríd Smith: ...it do that? Why would it say, "here is €2.5 million but there is no issue here with us having poor quality testing"? Our contention is that the outsourcing has delivered poor-quality services in cervical screening for women.