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Cancer Screening Programmes

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 3 May 2018

Thursday, 3 May 2018

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Róisín Shortall

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203. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Health the timeline surrounding the failure of the national cervical cancer screening programme to notify women of incorrect results; the date on which the attention of the screening programme was drawn to the incorrect results in relation to a person (details supplied); if its attention was drawn to other cases before that date; if so, the number; the steps it took to review results once the person's case was brought to its attention; the date his Department was informed of the person's case and the wider issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19472/18]

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My Department was notified that a patient had taken a legal case against MedLab/Clinical Pathology Laboratories Ltd, the company providing cytopathology for CervicalCheck, and the HSE on 6 April.

My Department received further information on issues related to the communication of the outcome of the CervicalCheck clinical audit process to women in the period since that date.

As the Deputy will be aware, I received a briefing note on the 16th April which I have published and I have set out the information available to me on the record of the Dáil, including during questions with the opposition on Tuesday, 1 May 2018.

The questions that the Deputy has raised directly in relation to CervicalCheck are more appropriate to the HSE and I have asked the HSE to respond directly to her in that regard.

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