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

..., result interpretation and reporting are controlled, audited and inspected. This is in keeping with international best practice. The academy fully supports the introduction of the primary HPV test and is available to work with the National Screening Service, NSS, to advise on future pathological service provision for this and other cancer screening programmes. The system chosen for...

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

Louise O'Reilly: ...by quality. What are the witnesses' views on this? Regarding the deskilling and redeployment of staff, what shape are we in to insource the outsourced work? With the introduction of HPV tests, I understand that fewer experts will be needed. In 2006, a tender process - we only got these documents this morning - was undertaken by the HSE. It was cancelled in September 2007. The...

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

...the latter and saying, for example, testing in the USA is inferior. Rather, we are referring to continuity of care, which we have sought for a long time. We recommend that, on its introduction, HPV testing be implemented in Ireland. My colleague will discuss HPV testing and its advantages.

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

...would probably have to bring in people from abroad to perform the smears. However, the Irish Cervical Screening Programme, ICSP, has been looking at the introduction of the human papilloma virus, HPV, test as the primary test on the cervical smear sample. The reason is Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Italy, the United Kingdom and other European countries are all moving towards the idea...

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

Colm Burke: ...concerned, the immediate response was "Well, it can't be cancer. I've got a clear smear." Do we need to get an great deal more information out there to the effect that the smear test or even the HPV testing about which we are talking will not produce a finite result of 100%? We are now in the area of litigation. If we take the figure of 95% of higher-grade abnormalities, what about...

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

...very important to get it right and to be qualified and expert in it. The academy would support that. I will discuss Professor Brennan's report and my colleague, Dr. Lambkin, will elaborate on HPV testing because the Senator asked about that. There is a bit of debate and confusion regarding statistics concerning the 65% to 75%. This is about the screening process. This is the whole...

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

...40 well-trained staff are required. There are screening, quality control and retraining elements while unusual cases have to be looked at. Time out is also required; staff need their breaks. If HPV testing was introduced, some 60,000 and 100,000 samples would be generated for cytology, so approximately one third of the 30 or 40 staff required would be needed to meet that demand. We are...

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

...within ten working days. That, presumably, is the standard with which we would have to comply should the work be repatriated here. That might have to be modified slightly because if a primary HPV test followed by a cytology examination on those that are positive from that test are required, the turnaround time will be slightly longer given two tests rather than one will need to be done....

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

Alan Kelly: ...word "some" has been troubling me. That means that some were reviewed and some were not. How, scientifically, was that done? How are some picked and not others? My last question relates to the HPV test into the future. This is important to me and I raised it in the Dáil weeks ago. There is no way in hell that the witnesses will be able to do these tests without receiving huge...

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

...we would like, called the national medical laboratory information system, MedLIS. It is examining a single laboratory information system for the entire country. In respect of the management of HPV testing and results, when this is repatriated and the testing is done in Ireland, that system will then be in a position to manage the dissemination of results nationally. All public...

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

Alan Kelly: How quickly will we be able to do HPV testing?

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

Ms Marie Culliton: HPV testing is being trialled in some areas. The Coombe is doing some. Whether it can scale up to do them all is a different matter. Other laboratories are doing HPV testing but not on this particular medium. We would need to look at getting that in place. The quickest way to do it is probably to send some of our scientists to places where it is happening so they can...

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

Colm Burke: On the cervical screening programme, I understand there is a 7% reduction in cervical cancer each year for the last four years. If HPV testing is introduced, what kind of reduction can be expected in cervical cancer? How long do we need to have it up and running before we can see really positive results?

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

...it by perhaps 80%. The UK has had a very effective screening programme since the 1980s over its whole population, where they have reduced the overall rate by at least 50%. The introduction of HPV testing will not completely cure cervical cancer but it might allow it to be detected more effectively and more quickly than with the cervical smear alone. It should also be borne in mind...

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

Ms Marie Culliton: Once the HPV testing has been introduced, it will be possible to reduce the screening frequency from three years to five years by using HPV triage, so one will also change the programme.