The HSE has said that where there is discordance between a woman’s original smear tests and the review results, it will provide access to a package of State supports, including a medical card and counselling.
Mr Harris on Monday opened the inaugural meeting of the 20-member National Screening Advisory Committee, established in response to the CervicalCheck controversy. It was set up to advise on new proposals for screening and on revisions to existing programmes. The head of the HSE women and infant health programme, Dr Peter McKenna, said “the only fair way” to do reviews of screening tests was blinded, where an abnormal smear is mixed in with 10 or 20 normal smears. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
The review takes in both the 221 group of women at the centre of last year’s controversy over CervicalCheck and a separate cohort of women whose cancers were notified to theIt was commissioned in May 2018 with the aim of providing a comprehensive overview of the screening history of all women diagnosed with cervical cancer over the past decade.
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