Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Bill 2019
Public bill · Government · Presented
Requires health services providers to tell patients, or where appropriate a family member or other relevant person, when a serious patient safety incident has happened, explain what occurred, say what is being done about it, and offer an apology where appropriate. It also makes certain incident reports and clinical audits easier to use for learning and improvement, while protecting those disclosures from being treated as admissions of fault in court or for insurance purposes. It matters because it pushes hospitals and other services toward openness after serious mistakes, helps patients get answers sooner, and creates a stronger system for spotting recurring problems. It also extends quality oversight to private hospitals and gives regulators a clearer role in learning from serious incidents.
Formal long title
An Act to provide for the mandatory open disclosure, by health services providers of certain incidents occurring in the course of the provision, to a person, of a health service; to provide, in the interest of the common good, for certain restrictions on the use of the information provided in such disclosures that are made in accordance with this Act and of any apologies made in the course of such disclosures and the use of any other information relating to the open disclosure provided, and apology made, after the notifiable incident disclosure meeting; to provide for the mandatory open disclosure, by health services providers, of Part 5 reviews carried out in accordance with this Act; to provide, in the interest of the common good, for certain restrictions on the use of the information provided in such disclosures that are made in accordance with this Act and of any apologies made in the course of such disclosures and the use of any other information relating to the open disclosure provided, and apology made, after the Part 5 review disclosure meeting; to make provision for procedures in respect of clinical audit, and the data obtained in clinical audits; to provide for the notification of certain incidents to certain persons; to amend the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000; to amend Part 4 of the Civil Liability (Amendment) Act 2017; to amend the Health Act 2007 to provide for the application of standards set by the Health Information and Quality Authority to private hospitals, to provide for the review by the chief inspector of certain incidents occurring in the course of the provision of a health service to a person by certain entities and for the Minister to prescribe certain health services as a prescribed private health service; and to provide for related matters.
Last updated 30 August 2024
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- Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Bill 2019: From the Seanad Dáil
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages Seanad
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Bill 2019: Second Stage Seanad
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage Dáil
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage Select Committee on Health
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Order for Second Stage Dáil
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Second Stage Dáil
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Referral to Select Committee Dáil