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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: I can try to get a timeline for the Deputy but this is an ongoing conversation between myself, my Department and CHI. The Deputy will be aware of the waiting list action plan. We have three high-priority clinical areas-----
- 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 answering the question. This is relevant and speaks directly to the Deputy’s question. There are three clinical areas specifically called out within the waiting list action plan, and they are bariatrics, gynaecology and paediatric orthopaedics, so there is an ongoing conversation at a very senior level in the Department, the HSE and Children's Health Ireland on this. Paediatric...
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The first conversation will have been when it became apparent-----
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: I certainly can but there is no need because that exact process is already built into the review.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Let me state clearly that it is absolutely the intention and has always been the intention that the families directly meet with the lead reviewer. The terms have been crafted such that he adjusts them depending on what they say. As I said to Deputy Cullinane earlier, with the benefit of hindsight, that process should have happened twice. It should have happened before the draft terms were...
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Yes.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The advice I have right now is that they do not believe so but we will double check. That review was done for a small number of children in Crumlin.
- 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 sure we can.
- 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 the Deputy. This is exactly what the additional review is looking at right now. Of course I have spoken to CHI and the HSE. My officials are engaged. I have a view on some of those questions. However, I am very much of the view that we have to establish the full facts. We have to establish who, at a management and a clinical level, knew what. This relates to several questions....
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The framework timeline is four months. I ask the Deputy to bear with me. When I heard that, I made it clear to CHI that I and the Oireachtas would not wait for four months to get answers to these questions. I have asked for it to be accelerated for that reason.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: CHI is carrying out that review. I beg the Deputy's pardon. Sorry. It is an external review.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The advice I have is that people from Cork University Hospital and other procurement experts are doing it. I will provide details on exactly who is doing that.
- 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 an external review that, in the first instance, I believe will be reporting to CHI and the chief clinical officer of the HSE.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: We need very clear answers to every question the Deputy just raised and many more, end to end. What has happened here is very serious. There is an external group which is reporting to the CHI board. However, I take the Deputy's point and agree with her point about trust. There must be trust in the answers. I absolutely take that on board. In addition to that, if we need to do an...
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Two separate groups are looking at this. We have discussed one. The second is Dr. Nayagam. We need to be clear that nobody will be waiting a year for a view from Dr. Nayagam and this review. There will be interim reviews and it is being set up such that the pressing clinical issues are reported on this year. The reason people are saying the review in its totality may take a while is that...
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: When was I informed of what?
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: What I had was Deputy Murphy's parliamentary questions. He can correct me if I am wrong but the information I have is that the first time his parliamentary questions were specific to the point that these could be identified was 27 July. If I am wrong, please feel free to correct that.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: Okay. They were submitted in July. I have looked carefully at this. As I see this, the Deputy asked a series of escalating questions. To begin with, they were quite vague. They are all on the record. They were about whether CHI uses non-medical grade equipment. I believe it replied in good faith that, to the very best of its knowledge, of course it did not use non-medical grade...
- 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 out of time, but may I take a-----
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Stephen Donnelly: The Crumlin review will be published. The families are being engaged with tomorrow. Crumlin hospital did this review off its own bat given the concerns raised in Temple Street. The very clear advice I have from CHI is that that review did not show higher return rates or complication rates than would have been expected internationally. Yes, we will publish the broader review. We will not...