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Tuesday, 22 March 2022

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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839. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 333 of 3 March 2022, the number of incidents reported to the National Incident Management System in each of the past five years which resulted in death, suffering, long-term incapacity or injury in tabular form. [14044/22]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The State Claims Agency (SCA) has a statutory remit to manage personal injury claims on behalf of Delegated State Authorities including the Health Service Executive. I have been informed by the SCA that the information below has been extracted from the National Incident Management System (NIMS) according to the below criteria:

Criteria used

- Incidents relate to Acute Statutory and Voluntary Hospitals only as per PQ 12203/22 referenced.

- Incidents reported in the period 2017-2021.

- Incidents involving patients, service users, staff, visitors, members of the public, contractors

- The incident reported with ‘Outcome at the time of the incident’ or ‘Additional outcome since Incident’ = ‘Injury not requiring first aid’, ‘Injury or illness, requiring first aid’, ‘Injury requiring medical treatment’, ‘Long Term disability/incapacity (incl. Psychosocial)’, ‘Permanent/Incapacity (incl. Psychosocial)’, ‘Death’.

- This report is correct as of 01/03/2022

Question 1:

Acute Hospitals - Incident Reported in the past 5 years

- The incidents in table below reflect incidents reported in the Acute Hospital Group with an outcome / additional outcome to be:

- ‘Injury not requiring first aid’ o ‘Injury or illness, requiring first aid’,

- ‘Injury requiring medical treatment’,

- ‘Long Term disability/incapacity (incl. Psychosocial)’, ‘Permanent/Incapacity (incl. Psychosocial)’,

- ‘Death’.

My Department has sought further information from the SCA on the breakdown for minor and serious incidents.

Year Incident Reported

Year 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Number of Incidents Reported 22,996 25,976 28,201 33,564 37,480

Table 1 – Acute Hospitals Incident Reported in the past 5 years

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