Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence

9:00 am

Mr. John Connaghan:

The Deputy asked if the framework is looking to be effective and if we can see some changes in this. We can look at serious reportable events under this framework, of which the top two are pressure ulcers and falls and trips. Taking pressure ulcers as an example, a lesson from that in the South/South West hospital group shows that we have a 67.5% reduction in the most serious type of pressure ulcers. That is exceptionally good news from this.