Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation

9:00 am

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

We do not have responsibility for open disclosure in the sense that it is something that we and the HSE rolled out together. We began it and partnered with the HSE. We said to the HSE in 2016 that we had done the work we could do on the roll-out, training and so on and open disclosure generally became part of the policy within the HSE. Dr. Scally then said that there were limitations with regard to the guidelines and so on. That followed from his report. We are now following up with the stakeholders to make sure that we move towards the necessary revisions of those guidelines to reflect his recommendation.

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