Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence
9:00 am
Mr. Jim Breslin:
It has the ability to do that. It can go in and inspect. It has set a standard that has been approved by the Minister. I refer to the national standards for safer and better healthcare. HIQA can go into a hospital and say it wants to examine it under this standard. It can examine things like infection control. It can do targeted inspections.
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