Results 1-20 of 36 for hpv speaker:Kate O'Connell

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...the previous two rounds, has the Department plans for a massive public health campaign in terms of identifying what we can learn from where we failed before? I refer to the vaccination rate with HPV vaccination dropping to 52%, which was not on the Minister's watch but it did happen, and to the great effort by all the witnesses, the late Laura Brennan and many others such that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: .... I discussed this before at a Facebook event. I am not sure how we would do it in terms of the Internet but I like where the Minister is going with it. It is very important. As we saw with the HPV vaccine, it is really hard to roll back. The lie has got around the world before the truth puts its boots on. One has to stand for something or one will fall for anything. That is why I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (18 Sep 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...to know whether it was testing smears without accreditation before December 2011. The same company - MedLab - secured the bowel screening contract, as the sole provider, in May 2012. It obtained HPV accreditation in June 2012 for the Roche 4800 machine. How were private companies able to secure tenders when they did not have the accreditation standard? Is that normal?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...lay out to us in black and white some of the questions we have had for the past year. It does not fix any of the historical issues. While I am very happy to draw a line in the sand and move on to HPV vaccination and eradicate cervical cancer and associated cancers, this committee needs to identify what was going on for ten years so that it never happens again either here or elsewhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...well as the negative effects of long-term antibiotic use. If we had enough capacity, that type of treatment would not be used. Thankfully, there has been much conversation in recent years about HPV vaccination. Whichever of our guests is an expert on it might speak briefly on the rise of head and neck cancers, especially among young men, and how it affects the role of dentists, as...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...the national children's hospital, it is worth remembering where CervicalCheck has come from. I imagine that the Chairman is very much aware of the pushback 15 years ago when cervical screening and HPV vaccination became possible. I remember a particular bishop in the south of Ireland suggesting that HPV vaccination or cervical screening would not be needed if women led pure and chaste...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...up had to deal with terrible abuse on social media, as did Laura Brennan. It is great to see how she was able to stand up in the face of such abuse. She saved lives and, to my mind, she saved the HPV programme because, to call a spade a spade, the HPV vaccination rate was heading below 50%, which would have rendered the programme unviable. Ms Brennan saved lives and we should all be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: In terms of the transition to HPV testing, did somebody say it would take two years to get it up and running and is that from now or then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...up with symptoms, for example bleeding, and a family history, is she prioritised? Those having a colposcopy are prioritised, as Dr. Doherty has outlined to Deputy Durkan, as are those who are HPV positive. Are women who turn up with symptoms also prioritised? For example, if two 30 year old women turn up, one with no symptoms and one with symptoms, does the woman with the symptoms jump...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We can get it back on the audio and have it retracted next week. Dr. Doherty referred to the HPV "reflex". Was that the word she used?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Can she elaborate on that? We are in cervical screening and are transitioning to HPV. If there is HPV reflex going on, would it be fair to say that we are in a transition period? I thought it was a move from "A" to "B" but it is really a transition.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...false or ambiguous information out there. What work has been done on that information going to a woman who is in the system perhaps a girl in her leaving certificate year, who has been through the HPV vaccination programme, and moving into the contraceptive period of life? How are we communicating in a better fashion compared to what was done prior to this crisis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Medicines Strategy: Discussion (6 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: This is not my area of expertise. Is it true to say that the mechanism works if it is a population health issue like hepatitis, HIV, HPV or anything that one wants to eradicate?

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

Kate O'Connell: ...on track to eradicate cervical cancer within ten years from when they started, how we are we doing with our target? I know it was discussed here and that the witnesses could not give a date for HPV testing technically superseding, although not getting rid of, cervical screening. While the witnesses cannot give a date, I am very conscious that on 10 October, Dr. Denton, the lady from...

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

Kate O'Connell: On the issue of HPV herd immunity, we went down to a rate of 52% immunisation with girls. Where are we now with percentages of HPV vaccine uptake after all of the catch-up programmes? Are we still going up the graph as opposed to down the graph for uptake of the vaccine among young girls? Although I am very supportive of boys also getting the vaccine in September, it is very important to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: .... The report, however, is very damning reading. While it is well put together, the content is not good. The first part of the report focuses on the move from the current screening to the HPV screening and the benefits of HPV screening. That is great and we are all for that. I want to focus, however, on the problems I have come across. Upon reading the report I am concerned about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: ...procedures, having meetings and basically doing nothing. Although he may not have wanted an answer to the question, Dr. Scally asked why there was an eight-year pilot and why it took so long to roll out the HPV vaccine. We were coming from a very primitive background in this country in terms of women’s health. If one looks at the media coverage of the roll-out of screening and the...

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...

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: ...on dealing with telling patients. Feelings might have really come to the fore if we were putting patients at the centre of this, not data. Earlier, Dr. O'Keeffe referred to her role in the HPV vaccine programme. I refer to any elected Deputy in this House who, through their reckless and irresponsible contributions, has previously contributed to the downward trend in the uptake of the...

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

Kate O'Connell: If she is to blame in the sense that her head has rolled, which I mean in the nicest possible way, surely there is a deficit now that she is gone, in the sense that she did a lot of work on the HPV vaccine. To my mind, she can be given credit for being involved in the reversal of the downward trend in the HPV vaccine. Just because her head has rolled in this instance is not to say that she...