Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
HIQA Report 2022: Discussion
Mr. Sean Egan:
We have limited resources, as everyone does. Our standard approach to inspection is that it may be a one day or two day inspection with four people. That is an appropriate balance to gather the evidence we need to make the judgements we need to make against the standards we are looking at and to ensure we get around to all the hospitals we need to inspect. There is a balance to be struck between evidence gathered in one inspection and frequency of inspections across the board so we can maintain feet on the ground.
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