Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 February 2022
79. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Health the number of reviews that have been commissioned by the HSE for each of the three categories identified in its Incident Management Framework since the inception of the framework in 2018, by year of referral, the CHO area in which the incident took place and if the service was a HSE service or a HSE funded service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5195/22]
View answerThe deputy will be aware, that in January 2018 the HSE launched a new Incident Management Framework (IMF). An incident is defined in the IMF as an event or circumstance which could have, or did lead to unintended and/or unnecessary harm. This includes clinical or non-clinical incidents which occur in health services. The IMF is designed to provide health and social care services with a practical and proportionate approach to the management of incidents.
The focus of the Framework is on understanding how and why an incident occurred and using this knowledge to improve safety.
In parallel to the IMF, information regarding the number and nature of incidents occurring in the HSE and HSE funded services are recorded on the National Incident Management System (NIMS) which is maintained by the State Claims Agency.
With regards the Deputy’s specific parliamentary question of the number of reviews commissioned by the HSE across all CHOs in HSE and HSE funded services, the HSE have advised that this detailed breakdown of information will require validation. The HSE will provide this information directly to the Deputy in due course.
The HSE launched an updated IMF in 2020 following a review they conducted in 2019 to enhance its operation and to continue to place emphasis on the need, in the aftermath of an incident, to adopt an empathetic, person centred and practical response to persons affected by an incident.
