Dr Gabriel Scally
Role: Carried out scoping inquiry
Current employment or any previous employment in which you continue to have a financial interest: Visiting Professor in University of Bristol and University of the West of England. Remunerated as appropriate for research activity and intermittently for teaching
Investment in unlisted companies, partnerships and other forms of business, major shareholdings (more than 5% of issued capital) and beneficial interests: Gabriel Scally Public Health Associates Ltd (wholly owned organisation carrying out professional advisory work in the public health field. No employees)
Any current contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Services Executive or provider of cervical screening services: None other than carrying out scoping inquiry on cervical cytology
Any previous contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: Member of the Commission on Patient Safety and Quality Assurance, established in 2007 and reported to the Minister in 2008
Has provided professional advice on consultancy projects for the Department of Health in conjunction with Crowe. These were public health related projects, including; in 2005-6, an evaluation of the training programme for public health nurses and AMOs in child health screening and surveillance, and, most recently, on public health workforce and training issues completed January 2018. Assessor on public health appointments panel for Health Service Executive in March 2017
Advisors/Support
Dr Hugh Annett
Role: Provided advice, as requested, on quality assurance and clinical audit, open disclosure and governance in screening services other than cervical screening
Current employment or any previous employment in which you continue to have a financial interest: Visiting Professor in University of the West of England. Remunerated as appropriate for research activity and intermittently for teaching
Associate Consultant with Oxford Policy Management Ltd (OPM); remunerated for occasional activities related to role as Chair of Research ethics Committee, and for occasional consultancy services as required
Investment in unlisted companies, partnerships and other forms of business, major shareholdings (more than 5% of issued capital) and beneficial interests: None
Any current contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: None
Any previous contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: None
Dr Karin Denton
Role: Provided advice, as requested, on screening quality assurance
Current employment or any previous employment in which you continue to have a financial interest: Consultant Cytopathologist, North Bristol NHS Trust, UK
Investment in unlisted companies, partnerships and other forms of business, major shareholdings (more than 5% of issued capital) and beneficial interests:
Private medical practice:
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- Cytopathology for Spire Hospital Bristol, UK
- Services to Her Majesty’s Coroner
- Medicolegal cytopathology expert reports instructed by solicitors for claimants, defendants, and others since 1998 across Britain and Ireland. Overall ratio of claimants to defendants is approximately 4 to 1
Any current contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: None other than advising on scoping inquiry on cervical cytology
Any previous contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: Has provided independent, expert and objective cytopathology professional advice on individual cervical slides, including medico-legal reports, in respect of a number of Irish cases instructed by, solicitors acting for claimants, solicitors acting for CPL, and to Quest
Mary Rose Gearty S.C.
Role: Provided legal advice in relation to the preparation of a preliminary report of an inquiry into cervical screening services
Current employment or any previous employment in which you continue to have a financial interest: Self-employed barrister, former lecturer at the Honorable Society of the King’s Inns and on the Examination Appeals Board of that institution (unpaid position)
Investment in unlisted companies, partnerships and other forms of business, major shareholdings (more than 5% of issued capital) and beneficial interests: Self-employed barrister. Sole trader. No other investments or interests
Any current contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: None
Any previous contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services:
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- Regular meetings, as Chair of a Community Centre liaison group, with HSE employees in relation to the management of a community centre in Rathmines (unpaid position)
- Member of the Board of Directors of Our Lady’s Hospice and Care Service, Harold’s Cross and Blackrock (unpaid position)
- No other relationship with any of the bodies described
Prof Julia Verne
Role: Provided advice, as requested, on cancer registration
Current employment or any previous employment in which you continue to have a financial interest: Head of Clinical Epidemiology, Public Health England (full-time employment)
Investment in unlisted companies, partnerships and other forms of business, major shareholdings (more than 5% of issued capital) and beneficial interests: None
Any current contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: None
Any previous contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: Attended a steering group meeting called to advise on call and recall for cervical screening in Ireland in 1999
Mr Allan Wilson
Role: Provided a comparison of accreditation schemes for laboratories for the a Supplementary Repot for the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme
Current employment or any previous employment in which you continue to have a financial interest: Lead Biomedical Scientist in Cellular Pathology and Advanced Practitioner in Cervical Cytology, NHS Lanarkshire, Scotland. No financial interest in any previous employer
Investment in unlisted companies, partnerships and other forms of business, major shareholdings (more than 5% of issued capital) and beneficial interests: None
Any current contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: Cervical cytology consortium manager for Scotland and Pathology Network manager. Works one day per week for the Scottish Government. Working with NHS England on the procurement process for HPV primary screening
Any previous contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: No previous work in Ireland
Emer Woodfull B.L.
Role: Provided legal advice in relation to the preparation of a preliminary report of a Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme
Current employment or any previous employment in which you continue to have a financial interest: Self-employed barrister, Law Library Dublin. Member of the Board of Management of Oberstown Children Detention Campus . Annual fee paid
Investment in unlisted companies, partnerships and other forms of business, major shareholdings (more than 5% of issued capital) and beneficial interests: Self-employed barrister. Sole trader. No other such other interests
Any current contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: None
Any previous contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services: Appeared for court appointed Guardian Ad Litems (not the HSE or the Department of Health) in various Child Law cases most recently in 2013 and fees paid to relevant solicitor by the HSE as required by statute. No previous contractual or other work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services
Crowe
Role: Advisory and professional services firm which provided logistical, project management and analytical support to the Inquiry
Current employment or any previous employment in which you continue to have a financial interest: Professional advisory firm based in Dublin and part of Crowe global network
Investment in unlisted companies, partnerships and other forms of business, major shareholdings (more than 5% of issued capital) and beneficial interests: Not applicable
Any previous contractual or work relationship with the Department of Health, Health Service Executive or provider of cervical screening services:
No current or past relationship with any laboratory service provider involved with CervicalCheck.