Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 June 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

If I could just explain, we have two separate sections, one is a clinical risk management section and then we have our claims section. There is a great deal of interaction between both, so there is an awful lot of learning that arises from the claims side that is fed back through our risk management side on closed claims analysis, for example, across the range of health services. To put the particular meeting in context for the Deputy, it was very much a preliminary meeting with the screening service. It was not something we had worries about. A lot of claims occur in hospitals due to medical negligence so they were our priority. This was a very introductory-type meeting. Mr. Gleeson was at the meeting and he might speak about it as well. It covered a range of things.

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