Mr. Sean Egan:

Our standard approach to inspection is that at the end of the inspection, which may be a day or two days, we may provide high-level preliminary findings. If there are any immediate risk issues as well we would flag those to be remedied immediately as we find them. We would not leave the premises until we were satisfied any risk issues that were immediate had been addressed. We would confirm that before we go. Due to the nature of our inspections, and obviously hospitals in particular are very complex organisations, we need to take time to gather all of the evidence and assess it before we can make our final judgments. Preliminary feedback would be provided at the end of the inspection but with all of our inspections we produce an inspection report. It is very considered, it is triangulated evidence, and we go through a process with the provider to seek feedback from them in accordance with natural justice. We then publish all of our work. Within the report, as outlined previously, we also have a compliance plan we expect the provider to complete. What they are doing there is outlining how they will work to address any findings that we need to have addressed within a timebound fashion.

We hold them to account for the implementation of that plan.