Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
Chapter 14 - Procurement by the Health Service Executive
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2013
10:00 am
Mr. Tony O'Brien:
In the acute sector there would be numerous reviews, mostly into adverse clinical outcomes. They would not typically escalate to the level of inquiry but have some of an inquiry's characteristics in that they are root cause analysis type reviews, in which we typically use a formula that allows nominations from the forum of postgraduate training bodies and appropriately qualified clinicians from a different location to carry out an external review. It would not be of that inquiry standard, however.
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