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THE PATIENT SAFETY Act is to be commenced “in the coming days”, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said today.
Today marks World Patient Safety Day. The Minister made his announcement as a number of events take place this week under the World Health Organization (WHO) campaign and global action plan for patient safety.
Donnelly said: “The Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 provides a legislative framework for several important patient safety issues, including the mandatory open disclosure of a list of specified serious patient safety incidents that must be disclosed to the patient and / or their family.”
The Act also provides for the mandatory notification of the same patient safety issues and events to the appropriate regulatory body.
“This is another great stride forward in patient safety and putting the patients’ needs at the heart of the health service,” Donnelly said.
The act was signed into law by the President last year. Now, the “preparatory steps” required to enable commencement of the act have been completed, the Department of Health said in a statement.
Among the preparatory steps is the development of a new comprehensive training programme for all HSE staff. The act also makes a number of amendments to the Health Act 2007, including the provision for the expansion of the Health Information and Quality Authority’s remit into private hospital services.
A conference at Dublin Castle today organised by the National Patient Safety Office (NSPO) alongside the HSE and Patients for Patient Safety Ireland hosted discussions on on new health regions, as well as how patients can be empowered to benefit from digital health innovations coming to the Irish health service.
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Will this protect us from the HSE?
@Padraig O’Brien: Doesn’t seem to be the intent no.
You got the name of the act wrong. Its called The Implemetation of Token Costly and Time Consuming Beauacratic Processes to Shield the HSE against Litigation Act”
Steve Donnelly hasn’t got a clue about patient safety
@Martin Finnerty: ohh he has a clue Martin, but left it somewhere he can’t find it. Charlatan.
Where was Aoife Johnstons safety? Resign Donnelly you are a disaster.
@reg morrisey: Here, here, overseeing an absolute shoot show, himself & Robert Watt.
@reg morrisey: Well said.
Does it outline how many offences merit dismissal? I couldn’t find.
I am The Egg Man
Does anyone listen to this guy anymore?
Am I right in saying that offences under the act attract a Class A fine, up to €5k? For a death?
@Chutes: Coz if I am then this is just to cover everyone’s arse’s and no more. To ensure no-one really gets held to account other than by a comparatively small fine. I hope I’m wrong!
Now, correct me if I am wrong, but my reading if this is that if a doctor realises that they have made a mistake, they are to notify the patient and appropriate authorities. Well, the authorities will not be too busy from this law as most doctors that I have encountered are too arrogant to even see when they are wrong, never mind admit to it.
Does it protect the patient from looking at Pfizer covid vaccine saftey data?
Worth a look.
Those sneaky Israelis at it again with exploding pagers? How does that happen?
@Alan Kennedy: stop being dense, this is about the safety of Irish patients
@Alan Kennedy: Mothing to do with this story, but it’s great to see such a successful operation against terrorists.
@Pat Hazzard: You acknowledge that it’s “Mothing to do with this story” yet persist in stirring the sht.
Easy for patients to be safe. They can’t get into a hospital. So no safety worries there then.
He’s not called Pat Hardarse for nothing
He looks like he’s just see a talking Egg.
Disappearance act by himself & Watt for the last few years as the NCH world wide scandal rumbles on & the Health Service falls apart at the seams, people dying of neglect in its care & all of a sudden with a General Election in view, Stephen resurrects himself from the bunker, giving Simon & Micheal a run for their money spouting on everything & promising everything, anyone voting for these Knobs needs their head examined
What about children like Harvey Sheratt? He’s 8 years old and in constant pain yet was taken off the scoliosis surgery list without his parents being informed. Getting Harvey the surgery he needs should be the ministers number 1 priority instead of this grandstanding!
Can it be made retrospective? Given the disastrous incidents and broken promises such as breast cancer failings, scoliosis promises broken, unnecessary surgeries, inadequate equipment ……
Will department and hse functionaries be brought to book for their parts in the disastrous failure in healthcare provision with no planning and foresight given the repetitive overcrowding and the many outbreaks of winter vomiting bugs and the cause of this.
This horse has bolted and the need to introduce legislation shows how damaged our health care provision has become.
First world and world class healthcare my whole.
How about protection for the scoliosis children with all your money just pay for them and their parents to get the treatment abroad or in private hospitals
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