Cork University Maternity Hospital: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2021-09-30
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Stephen Donnelly (FF), Wicklow

I would be delighted to. I thank the Deputy for her questions. I want to walk through exactly what happened in terms of how this is escalated and the classification of an incident as serious or very serious. This goes to the question that has very reasonably been raised, was raised by RTÉ, and indeed has been discussed by other Deputies. That classification is a matter for the reporting hospital when the incident is being reported through the HSE's incident management framework. The South/South West Hospital Group advised that the incident was escalated to the serious incident management team in Cork University Hospital and was being managed in line with the HSE's incident management framework.
The framework is focused on identifying what happened, and, obviously, learnings and safety. Following an initial assessment by the safety incident management team in Cork University Hospital, two types of reviews have been commissioned, one which is a systems analysis review with external expertise. The systems analysis review aims to establish the factual circumstances leading to the incident, the key causal factors that may have occurred-----

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Sitting date: 2021-09-30