Molly Walsh

Obs & Gynae trainee

[Molly Walsh @MollyWalsh20]

@bobbyoleary3 @BMC_series Unreal Bobby! Well done 👏🏼

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

I'm sceptical if these threads achieve anything because misinformation is so deeply entrenched and it's never easy to counter it.

Interval cancers will keep happening, labs can't achieve 100% sensitivity.

Screening will remain a thoroughly imperfect, vital life-saving service.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Politicians muddied waters further by saying "women were wrongly given the all-clear."

A negative test isn't "the all-clear"; all a negative means is a low risk of invasive cancer developing at this moment in time.

There's no "all-clear", it's not a diagnostic test for cancer.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Politicians were already making same mistake, claiming "life-or-death information was withheld from women."

In reality, it was an audit of screening histories of cancer patients.

Information from this specialized audit makes no difference to a clinical prognosis - or to dying.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

There was misinformation all over the place, when the CervicalCheck scandal emerged in 2018.

Given so much of it persists to this day, worth trying again to retrace steps and outlining how all of that misinformation took hold.

Focusing on the role of media and politicians./1

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Solicitor firm that represented Vicky Phelan earned €6.68m from State in medical negligence claims in 18 months https://t.co/QDKRdfBPQa

[Molly Walsh @MollyWalsh20]

Excellent thread and explanation.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

World Health Organization say legal claims against HSE CervicalCheck is financially unsustainable.

NHS Cervical Screening Programme is not threatened by litigation, despite the same nature and scale of issues.

Why not? How do they handle the same circumstances as in Ireland? 🧵

[Molly Walsh @MollyWalsh20]

@Care2much18 Excellent thread - thank you

[Molly Walsh @MollyWalsh20]

@sarahjmurp Unreal Ms Murphy 💥

[SeánMoncrieff @SeanMoncrieff]

Seán Moncrieff: I’m a man. If I had periods I’d never shut up about it https://t.co/iXDGiQP19h

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Interview: Outgoing master of the Rotunda Hospital Fergal Malone gives his views on the future of maternity care in Ireland (1/7) 🧵https://t.co/w60uoSGLtS

[Molly Walsh @MollyWalsh20]

@sarahjmurp I agree Sarah - obstetrics will be the only specialty affected. So speaking of choices - I would like the choice to be able to work privately if I so wish. And as you said, for Consultant Obstetricians , private work keeps their labour ward skill set up.

[Molly Walsh @MollyWalsh20]

@laurencekinlan Only people that should be locked up are the lawyers.

[Molly Walsh @MollyWalsh20]

@LiamTwomey14 @GavinTobin @laurencekinlan Wrong.

[Noble Guardian @NobleGuardianIE]

#CervicalCheck
"an inherent characteristic of screening programmes is that there will *always* be some cases of cancer missed and audits of past tests will *inevitably* produce some differences from previous interpretations."
Scally Report, pp 115
https://t.co/UIy1hFQSz4

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

I see badly misinformed tweets like this often; that women were not told they had cancer and denied treatment.

It strikes me some on Twitter don't have a clue what the purpose of that cervical audit was or how harmful this ongoing misinformation is.

I'll (try) outline facts. /1

[Colin Doherty @gastaut]

@RadioBrendanRTE astounding things on radio 1. No one asking if Cian O’Carroll had conflict of interest 2. No one mentioning hundreds of women alive because of Cervical Check 2. No Professional bodies brave enough to stand up for cervical check #RCPI @HSELive

[Molly Walsh @MollyWalsh20]

Thank you ⁦@alisonoconn⁩ and ⁦@russellnoirin⁩. More pieces like this please. https://t.co/101FqeNuqJ

[Laura Durcan @Rheum2improve]

I strongly believe that health screening needs to be embedded in the irish psyche, no test is perfect, no screening test will pick up 100% of disease. But if we don't look for disease it will often be too late by the time we find it.

https://t.co/Ipjqa8ScTf

[Joanchristinemarie @Joanchristinema]

@garvangrant Consultants took a disproportionate 30%cut in 2012 ..new entrants have been doing the same job as their peers for 30% less. They are the epicentre of our health service. The responsibility rests with them. Pay them appropriately