HSE chief Tony O’Brien has said he was told in 2016 that the results of audit findings in relation to who developed cervical cancer were to be communicated to the patients concerned. Mr O’Brien said he was informed that the audits had not thrown up any issues of concern in relation to quality assurance in the cervical cancer screening programme. Earlier, Fianna Fáil TD Marc MacSharry claimed Mr O’Brien would not last 20 minutes if he was working in the private sector. Mr O’Brien said Mr MacSharry was causing hysteria and was failing to accept the reality of population -based screening programmes. Mr MacSharry said Mr O’Brien was in charge of a health system in which there had been gross systemic failures and that people were dying.

Source: The Irish Times May 10, 2018 11:54 UTC