Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 March 2022
Select Committee on Health
Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage
Róisín 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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