Ms Mary Dunnion:

To continue on from Dr. MacLellan's point. that will be contained in the detail, in the context of the issuing of a licence. We are very familiar with the existing public hospitals as they are currently structured but it is envisaged that the licensing system will have, as was explained, mandatory notifications. While HIQA might not be on site in a hospital it will, through the mandatory notifications, have oversight of what is happening in the hospital. In tandem with that, it will use what is publically reported in performance information incident reporting, and of course the patient safety (licensing) Bill will also mean that more information flows to HIQA. Each hospital has a profile. We will base our method of implementing this Bill on what we have learned from the regulation of social services. This job involves allocating a risk rating to a service, if that is what is required. There will be quite a significant matrix of how we do that. It allows us to respond where risk is identified and where were are notified about risk, which may be aligned to mandatory notifications. We then schedule inspections, both announced and unannounced. We are taking on a plethora of roles but everything is in the context of the structure we have and is underpinned by a robust risk management structure and analysis of risk. We can share that with the committee, if it would help, at a later stage.