Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Review of National Maternity Strategy 2016-2026: Discussion
9:00 am
Mr. Kilian McGrane:
That is a good point. The learning has been taken onboard by the HSE. It has a new incident management framework with a tiering. What was described as a systems analysis review was at the top end. However, there were only one or two steps before that. Once in that process it is extremely formal and does take a long time. What the HSE has come up with is a multiplicity of different approaches and there is an attempt to pick the right one to meet the needs of the family involved in the care. We can try to move away from a system where there is a need to wait for what could be a two year process to find out the answers and try to do it in a much more timely fashion.