Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Damien McCallion:
One of the things we are trying to encourage is more reporting of incidents and issues when they happen so learning can be applied. We have a whole process but that will increase the amount of reporting so learning can be taken from anything that happens within the system. That is really important. As a metric, the number has not changed, but we would like to see more reporting across all services in terms of things people can learn from. That may not mean there is an incident from the patient's perspective in all cases. That is an important point to note about the numbers.
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