Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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585. To ask the Minister for Health the status of incidents entered into the national incident management system, by month, in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54134/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The State Claims Agency hosts the National Incident Management System (NIMS) which is the principal source of national data on incident activity for the Irish public health service. Under the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000 State authorities are obliged to report adverse incidents promptly to the State Claims Agency (SCA). This allows the SCA, in conjunction with State authorities, to identify and analyse developing trends and patterns and to work with the State authorities concerned to develop and implement risk mitigation strategies. It is also important in the investigation of any subsequent claim.

I have been informed by the SCA that the information contained in the attached document was extracted from the National Incident Management System (NIMS) as per the criteria outlined below.

Criteria used

-This report shows all incidents reported by Delegated State Authorities on NIMS between 01/01/2018 and 31/12/2020

- The figures include all personal injury (Service User, Staff and Member of Public), property damage, dangerous occurrence, and informal complaint incidents

- This report is correct as of 31/10/2021.

In the table attached, Healthcare refers to all Statutory and Voluntary Healthcare Organisations that have been delegated to the State Claims Agency e.g. Acute hospitals, Section 38 organisations and National Support Services.

All other Delegated State Authorities are all other state bodies outside of Healthcare which have been delegated to the State Claims Agency e.g. Government Departments and Agencies under the aegis of the Ministers.