Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Select Committee on Health

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage

Photo of Róisín ShortallRóisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Can I tease that a little more? Is the Minister saying that it would only be covered in circumstances where there was a patient safety issue in terms of an actual event as opposed to a diagnosis not happening due to perhaps shortcomings in the screen programmes? I would have thought the key issue is not that something goes wrong, which it can do from time to time, but how it is handled and the need for open disclosure on information that comes to light subsequently to, say, a screening programme?

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