Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals
9:00 am
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
Obviously, we check periodically with the State Claims Agency on the main reasons why reimbursements from us to the agency are increasing so much over the years. We are reassured that it is not because of our level of incidents or claims, especially catastrophic claims, is outside international norms. It is more to do with the overall claims profile and how the legal and insurance systems work as opposed to the risk aspect. We are highly focused on managing clinical incidents and clinical risk, aside from any question about the budget.
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