Health
HSE chair warned Donnelly that cancer screening plans were ‘misleading’
Proposed amendments to the Patient Safety Bill were criticised by Ciarán Devane as ‘out of line with international best practice’
Stephen Donnelly decided not to define cancer screening reviews as patient safety incidents after the HSE said his plans would “embed a misunderstanding” of the limitations of screening in legislation.
The Patient Safety Bill defines a number of “notifiable patient safety incidents” which must result in the health regulator being notified, and full open disclosure to patients or families regarding the incidents. The incidents defined in the bill mostly relate to unanticipated deaths in medical ...
