Past Webinars

LGBTplus awareness for Cervical Screening - webinar on 12 October 2022

The aim of this webinar is to develop confidence in offering cervical screening to lesbian and bisexual (LB) women and LGBTI+ people with a cervix based on the NSS Cervical Screening report “To examine the knowledge, attitudes, participation, and experiences of lesbian and bisexual women, trans men, non-binary, and intersex people with a cervix in cervical screening in Ireland”

Learning Outcomes:

Develop an awareness of NSS LGBT+ Cervical Screening study findings.
Introduction to terminology and appropriate language.
Introduction to the concept of “heteronormativity”

Target Audience: All healthcare staff (including admin staff) involved in delivering quality assured Cervical Screening Service.

Speakers: Ms Ciara Mulcahy Linehan – Community Health Worker LINC and Ms Debbie Ramsbottom - Senior Training Coordinator STU and CervicalCheck LGBT+ Access Officer

Increasing participation in Cervical Screening in Primary Care - 26 October 2022

The aim of this webinar is to understand what primary care can do to increase participation in cervical screening.

Learning Outcomes:

To understand strategies for increasing participation in cervical screening in primary care
To review who may need extra support in your practice
To consider difficult scenarios
To review case studies about interventions in primary care practices that increased participation

Target Audience: All healthcare staff (including admin staff) involved in delivering quality assured cervical screening service.

Speaker: Ms Lynn Swinburne– Senior Health Promotion Officer, Public Health NSS.

What is Screening? What the public needs to know - webinar on 12 September 2022

The aim of this seminar is to improve understanding of the benefits, limitations and possible harms associated with cervical screening so that you can explain key messages about cervical screening to women/the public.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants understand the screening pathway and how a screening programme is organised
Participants have knowledge of the benefits, limitations and possible harms associated with cervical screening
Participants can explain key messages about cervical screening to their patients/the public

Target Audience: All healthcare staff (including admin staff) involved in a delivering quality assured cervical screening service.

The speaker is Dr Laura Heavey, Specialist in Public Health Medicine, National Screening Service

The Cervix: Recognising the Normal and Abnormal Cervix, webinar on 24 August 2022

Aim: For participants to be familiar with the most common cervical anomalies and what may require further investigation, and to understand referral pathways to colposcopy.

Intended learning outcomes:

Understand the anatomy and physiology of the cervix
Be able to identify the transformation zone and the squamocolumnar junction
Understand the importance of why the sample taker needs full visibility of the cervix
Understand the rationale for why we sample the transformation zone
Be familiar with the most common anomalies and those that require further investigation
Understand referral pathways to colposcopy
Be able to identify cervical cancer

Target Audience: All sample takers that are involved in delivering a high-quality cervical screening service

Facilitator: Dr John Price, Colposcopy Clinical Advisor, CervicalCheck

Sampletaking in non-primary screening settings: Gynae, Colposcopy, GUM and SATU, 10 August 2022

Information: This 40-minute webinar is presented by Education and Training Manager at CervicalCheck Dr Rachael Comer and Senior Training Co-ordinator at CervicalCheck Debbie Ramsbottom. Dr Rachael Comer, provides information about the cervical screening programme and health care professionals website; and Debbie Ramsbottom presents on sample taking in non-primary screening settings to the CervicalCheck screening programme.

Aim: To understand the roles and responsibility of the sample taker and clinical lead in the non-primary care setting