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Enacted Seanad
No. 130 of 2013

Health Identifiers Bill 2013

Public bill · Government · Presented

The Health Identifiers Bill 2013 would create unique numbers for patients and healthcare providers, linked to national registers and used with medical records and health-service communications. It aims to improve patient safety, data accuracy and healthcare management, while limiting access, protecting personal information and making misuse an offence.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the assignment of a unique number to an individual to whom a health service is being, has been or may be provided; to provide for the assignment of a unique number to a person who provides a health service; to make provision for the establishment and maintenance of registers in respect of such numbers and other particulars of the individuals and other persons to whom the numbers are assigned; to make provision for the basis on which such registers may be accessed and the personal data contained therein may be processed; to provide for the delegation by order to the Health Service Executive of certain functions conferred on the Minister for Health; to provide for the consequential amendment of other enactments; and to provide for related matters

Last updated 20 November 2019

Sponsor
  • Minister for Health Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Health Identifiers Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages
    Seanad
  • Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages
    Dáil
  • Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee Stage
    Select Sub-Committee on Health
  • Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil
  • Health Identifiers Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages
    Seanad
  • Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Order for Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage
    Seanad

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