Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency: Discussion
Chapter 20: Management of the Clinical Indemnity Scheme of the Report on the Accounts of Public Services 2021

9:30 am

Dr. Cathal O'Keeffe:

Our advice is given directly to the HSE and not to the Department, because we indemnify the HSE, so we would not reply directly to the Department on that. In relation to the HSE, we have said that communication issues are a problem, and by that I mean communication around care and the transfer of care. What the Deputy is talking about is part of that. Our analysis has to be rooted in what we are actually seeing in claims. We may or may not see in a claim, and in fact we probably would not see directly in a claim, an issue directly related to the lack of an electronic healthcare record. We would be able to see that perhaps an issue-----

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