Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 September 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016

9:00 am

Ms Mary Dunnion:

Several things feed in to determine that. In the context of the regulation of centres for disability and older persons, there is mandatory notification of incidents. In other words, the provider has to notify HIQA in the context of falls, the development of pressure sores and residents being transferred to hospital. There are aspects on safeguarding. First, there is mandatory notification. Second, there is unsolicited information, which Mr. Quinn alluded to, whereby somebody rings HIQA to inform us about something. That information is not validated. Third, there is the regulatory history of a provider. All that brings together a risk profile.

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