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

Ms Anne O'Connor:

Yes. There has been quite a lot of work on that. The risk committee has been working in quite a different way in that it has been meeting. To go back to the Chairman's point about being able to spot the things in the system that are of concern and that might keep any of us awake at night, the risk committee has been meeting with national directors looking at where the vulnerabilities are in the system to see how it can then support services in terms of risk management.

The other point is that we have been focusing more attention on how we develop our risk register in terms of more regular reviews. There was a time when once the risk register was done, people moved on. We have been working with national directors and their teams to use risk registers more as a working document in terms of proactive management of situations as they are arising. The emphasis has been changing. A group is working now on trying to devise a new approach to risk management. Presumably, that will be discussed with the incoming board as well.

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