Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 March 2022
Select Committee on Health
Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Yes, exactly. It is going much further than having to have established that a patient safety event happened. It comes before that. I ask the members to bear with me because there is a lot of work going on to figure out exactly how this will work. Essentially, what I have asked the Department is what the Deputy has just laid out. If we have an identified patient on an interval cancer where a look-back is done and a discordance has been found, regardless of whether that discordance subsequently happens to be a patient safety incident - it may or may not be - open disclosure is required under law.
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