Social Democrats co-leader R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD has strongly endorsed the calls of women and families affected by the CervicalCheck crisis for swift implementation of the detailed recommendations of the Scally report published today.<\/p>\n
\u201cDr Scally\u2019s report lifts the lid on what is an exceptionally paternalistic culture within elements of the medical profession. It is incumbent on the profession to commit to tackling these issues, which have clearly caused so much additional and needless suffering for patients and their families.“<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Social Democrats co-leader R\u00f3is\u00edn Shortall TD has strongly endorsed the calls of women and families affected by the CervicalCheck crisis for swift implementation of the detailed recommendations of the Scally report published today.<\/p>\n
Deputy Shortall said:<\/p>\n
\u201cSince this scandal broke, women and families affected have said they wanted to get to the bottom of what went wrong and why, and Dr Scally\u2019s comprehensive report thankfully answers many of their questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cDr Scally\u2019s inquiry found problems everywhere he looked, with many indications that\u00a0the screening programme was \u2018doomed to fail\u2019 at some point. He chronicles the lack of proper governance of the health service, a lack of attention to quality assurances and risk management, and an utter lack of accountability within the HSE and in fact throughout the health system. This is a shocking state of affairs which puts our entire health system to shame.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is utterly clear that what\u2019s now needed is swift action to restore full confidence in the cervical cancer screening programme. For that to happen, there can no delay by the government in implementing the report\u2019s fifty recommendations, which amount to an entire reboot of how the national screening programme operates and is managed and governed. It must also address issues of procurement, tendering and auditing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn particular, there must be rapid progress in introducing a statutory duty for individual doctors to disclose full information to patients. We need to see legal sanctions for individuals who hide information from patents or keep them in the dark. These should be introduced as part of the Patient Safety Bill which is currently before the Oireachtas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deputy Shortall added:<\/p>\n
\u201cI also fully support the calls made by Dr Scally as well as Stephen Teap and Lorraine Walsh today for the affected women and their families to receive proper apologies from individual doctors for how their cases were so badly mis-handled.<\/p>\n
\u201cDr Scally\u2019s report lifts the lid on what is an exceptionally paternalistic culture within elements of the medical profession. It is incumbent on the profession to commit to tackling these issues, which have clearly caused so much additional and needless suffering for patients and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deputy Shortall said it was unfortunate that Dr Scally\u2019s report does not contain any information on the accuracy rates of the various labs which carried out screening on behalf of CervicalCheck.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only lab referenced in the report is CLP in Texas which has not been used since 2013, and Dr Scally\u2019s report is very damning of the practices in this company. The questions and suffering do not end here. Women affected by this scandal and their families must still wait several more months for the report from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists which is inquiring into clinical failures in relation to their diagnosis and treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n
ENDS<\/p>\n
12 September 2018<\/p>\n
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