Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE

9:00 am

Photo of Jonathan O'BrienJonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On risk management, one of the objectives of the State Claims Agency is to advise and assist healthcare enterprises on measures to be taken to prevent the occurrence or to reduce the incidence of adverse clinical events which could result in medical negligence claims. Given we now have 11 cases, has the State Claims Agency given or will it be giving any advice to the HSE on measures to be taken to prevent this occurrence given we now know that all of the cases the State Claims Agency is dealing with are related to American labs?

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