Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

General Scheme of the Patient Safety (Licensing) Bill: Discussion

9:00 am

Dr. Tony Holohan:

One's licence is based around that. One is not in the game unless one is reaching those standards. However, that does not mean that services should fail to have a continuing aspiration towards quality improvement in order that they achieve standards that go way beyond those floor standards. Not every quality improvement standard would necessarily be seen as a mandatory standard. One would not-----