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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]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 767. To ask the Minister for Health the scientific evidence and the bodies from which evidence has been gathered that has assisted him to arrive at the decision to opt for a HPV only based test in the future. [25050/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 768. To ask the Minister for Health if he or the HSE has costed the replacement of the national screening program with a HPV based test; and if co-testing of HPV and pap has also been costed. [25051/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 769. To ask the Minister for Health if HPV testing will be carried out by laboratories here and under a tendering process similar to the current regime. [25052/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 770. To ask the Minister for Health if new HPV testing will be standardised across all laboratories in order to ensure that variation in detection rates does not reoccur between laboratories. [25053/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: 771. To ask the Minister for Health if public laboratories based here will be able to conduct the new HPV testing; the provisions being made to increase the capacity and infrastructure of laboratories based here to deal with the work; and if he has examined the need for future graduate programs in universities and the need for on-site facilities and training in hospitals. [25054/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (12 Jun 2018)

Simon Harris: ...771, inclusive, together. The outcome of a Health Technology Assessment (HTA) carried out by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) for the National Screening Service was that the HPV test is a more accurate testing mechanism than the current liquid-based cytology, that the use of the HPV test would result in fewer false negative results, and that the use of the HPV test...

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