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Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: We are in agreement about the need for formal structures and the culture as well. In this Bill there is clear accountability for not disclosing. That is the purpose of the Bill. If somebody is deemed to have not complied with the mandatory open disclosure requirements for the serious patient events as laid out in the Bill, which can be added to by regulation, the person will have committed...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: Section 49 address the offences and the penalties. A health service provider which fails to comply with the obligations to make an open disclosure of a notifiable patient safety incident without reasonable excuse shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine. A health service provider that fails to comply with the obligation to report a notifiable patient safety incident...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: The definition of a "health service provider" is detailed in section 3. It could be an individual hospital, for example. While I understand the points being made, I think they are probably beyond the scope of this legislation. This legislation is around trying to instil in law an obligation for mandatory open disclosure. It is one that will be taken very seriously by the healthcare...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 6: In page 21, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(3) The Executive shall have regard to subsections (1)and (2)— (a) in the performance of its functions under section 7 of the Act of 2004, and (b) without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a), in its management and delivery, under section 7(4) of the Act of 2004, of health and...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 7: In page 23, line 12, to delete “in writing”.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 8: In page 24, lines 35 and 36, to delete “by telephone (or other similar method of communication) (“other than in person”)” and substitute “other than in person”.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 9: In page 24, line 38, after “request” to insert “under subsection (2)”.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 10: In page 25, to delete lines 21 to 28 and substitute the following: “(c) shall, in accordance with section 24, give the patient or the relevant person (or both of them) a copy of the statement referred to in subsection (5),”. These are minor, technical amendments that will streamline the text in respect of how a copy of the statement is provided....

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 11: In page 25, to delete lines 30 to 34 and substitute the following: “(d) shall give the statement referred to in section 11(1)to the patient or relevant person (or both of them) in accordance with section 24.”.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 12: In page 27, line 3, to delete “in writing”.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 13: In page 27, line 17, to delete “in writing”.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 14: In page 29, line 26, to delete “a request under”

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 15: In page 31, line 13, to insert a comma after “(3)”. This minor drafting amendment will insert a comma. Similarly, amendment No. 36 will merely insert the letter "a" before “service provider”. The amendments are purely technical, to correct the text. There will be no material impact on the provisions in the Bill.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 16: In page 32, to delete lines 15 to 22 and substitute the following: “(c) shall, in accordance with section 24, give the patient or relevant person (or both of them) a copy of the statement referred to in subsection (3).”.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 18: In page 37, to delete lines 7 to 16 and substitute the following: “(2) A health services provider shall— (a) give the statements referred to in subsection (1)(a)to the patient or relevant person (or both of them)— (i) at the meeting referred to in subsection (1)(a), or (ii) not later than 5 days from the date on which the meeting referred...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 19: In page 37, line 39, to delete “in writing”.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 20: In page 38, to delete line 3 and substitute the following: “(d) the note referred to in section 19(6)(d),”.

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 21: In page 38, to delete line 4 and substitute the following: “(e) the note referred to in section 19(10),”.