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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 1 February 2022

Tuesday, 1 February 2022

Questions (817)

Holly Cairns

Question:

817. 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 reports (details supplied) and all other reports into CervicalCheck. [5165/22]

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Written answers

The 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. The Department of Health engages on an ongoing basis with the HSE and the National Cancer Registry of Ireland to oversee implementation the recommendations.

At the end of quarter three 2021, 164 of the 170 actions, arising from 58 recommendations, are completed. Work is well underway in completing the six remaining actions, which are all 'in progress'. The Department will publish the Quarter 4 2021 implementation report shortly. 

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; the full archive and previous quarterly progress reports are available on the Department of Health website.

Dr Scally last reported on the implementation of the recommendations of his Scoping Inquiry in April 2020. In this review report, Dr Scally says that substantial progress has been made, the vast majority of actions were on track or were completed, and he is satisfied with the approach and structures in place for implementation. 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.

I have asked Dr Gabriel Scally to conduct a final progress review of implementation of the recommendations of his Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck screening programme. Dr Scally has agreed it is now timely to conduct a final progress review and is commencing this work in January 2022.

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