Tim O'Malley (Limerick East, Progressive Democrats)

There is no difference. The commission will develop proposals to ensure clear responsibility among senior management and clinical leaders within our health system for performance in quality and patient safety. It will put in place more effective reporting of adverse clinical events and complaints to learn from them and ensure the rest of the health system learns from them and provides a clearer role for patients and carers in feeding back on care received and ways to ensure health care practice is consistently based on what has been shown to work in other centres. It will look at a statutory system of licensing of public and private providers of health care and better integration of the work of different regulatory bodies in the health system to achieve a joined up approach and a sharing of best practice. Those are composite principles of safety.

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