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- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: My advice is that Crumlin decided to examine its own caseload on the basis of Temple Street having done the same. The advice I have is that it was not kicked off by an adverse event or concerns being raised.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I beg the Deputy’s pardon for interrupting, but in case there are families listening whose children were involved in Crumlin, what Crumlin and CHI have said is that they did not find concerns through their own review.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I would need to check to see what report that was.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: My advice is that it was a small note on an accreditation visit. If that is what it was, then I have not read it.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Is the Deputy referring to an implementation plan for the recommendations from the Boston review?
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I just do not know to which report the Deputy is referring.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Does the Deputy mean an implementation plan of the Boston recommendations?
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I am going to take it that it is the Boston review recommendations.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I would need to see what the Deputy is pointing at.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Deputy, I-----
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I am trying to answer the Deputy’s question.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The short answer to the Deputy's question is that the implementation plan that I am aware of refers to the implementation of the Boston report recommendations. Yes, those recommendations are being implemented at the moment.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I know that the board has been involved. For example, I am advised that the external review on the springs is reporting to the board. There is a broader conversation to be had on another day about voluntary hospitals and the level of control the State has over hospitals it fully funds.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Temple Street has commissioned an external review to answer those questions. Our external review with Dr. Nayagam is looking at those questions as well.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: People would have been aware of the use of the springs. It was based on work done in Utrecht. As far as we could see, though, people were not aware – certainly at hospital level – until late July that these were not medical-grade springs. That is one of the serious questions.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: It is fair to say the HPRA is concerned about what has happened. As far as we can tell, the HPRA had no knowledge of this, so this is not a lapse on the part of the HPRA. What it has stated clearly is that, if a surgeon wants to create authorisation on something that is not a mainstream medical product----
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: -----there is a process to do that, but that was not done in this case.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I take the Deputy's point, although I would say that the responsibility for ensuring medical-grade materials and supplies are used lies first and foremost with the medical teams and the hospitals themselves. The HPRA is the regulator and it will intervene as it deems appropriate. It is concerned that the processes were not followed in this case.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank colleagues for this debate, which has been very useful.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: That is a clinical question, and I am not a spinal surgeon. However, it is exactly the kind of question that can be reviewed and I believe will be looked at through the upcoming external review.