Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 July 2021
3261. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to fully implement the recommendations contained in the reports of the scoping inquiry and all other reports into CervicalCheck. [41103/21]
View answerThe Programme for Government commits to fully implement the recommendations contained in Dr Scally’s Report of the Scoping Inquiry, and all other reports into CervicalCheck.
Significant progress has been made in implementing the recommendations and associated actions from Dr Scally's report, across all themes and areas of work, by the Department of Health, the HSE and the National Cancer Registry Ireland. In addition, the CervicalCheck Steering Committee, chaired by Professor Anne Scott, and which includes representatives from 221+ Group and patient advocates in its membership have a role in oversight of the implementation of the remaining recommendations.
At the end of Quarter 2 2021, 164 of the 170 actions, arising from 58 recommendations, are completed. Work is well underway in completing the 6 remaining actions. Since Quarter 1 2019, the Department of Health has been publishing quarterly progress reports on the implementation of the recommendations made in Dr Scally’s 2018 report and the full archive and previous quarterly progress reports is available on the Department of Health website.
It is important to acknowledge, as well as the ongoing developments in the CervicalCheck programme and the National Screening Service, the implementation of many recommendations continues to have a wider impact on many areas of health policy and programme delivery. This includes the ongoing work of the National Screening Advisory Committee and the Women’s Health Taskforce, for example, as well as ongoing policy development around issues such as open disclosure, and patient and public participation in health policy development and implementation.
