Debate contribution: Screening: PHA/HSCT Interaction
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 18 February 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Screening: PHA/HSCT Interaction
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4806316
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Text
Trusts are responsible for delivering the screening services that they provide. They have a statutory duty of quality. Each trust is responsible for maintaining internal structures to support quality improvement and local coordination of screening services. They are also charged with ensuring that their workforce is appropriately trained. The Public Health Agency provides oversight and external quality assurance for screening programmes. It is also responsible for maintaining structures to support quality improvement and coordination of the screening programmes across Northern Ireland. Screening programmes have a learning event protocol that sets out the arrangements between the trusts and the Public Health Agency to support a culture of shared learning in order to improve the quality and safety of the programmes. Any issue, regardless of its impact, including near misses, should be reported immediately by the trust to the relevant screening team in the PHA. The team will then work collaboratively with the trust to investigate, review and implement any actions recommended because of the investigation. For more serious incidents or if more than one trust is involved, an incident management team will be established with involvement from relevant stakeholders. Serious adverse incidents (SAIs) are notified under the regional procedure for the reporting and following up of SAIs. Individual learning events are discussed at regular meetings between the PHA and the trusts, and a summary of learning events is reviewed at regular regional quality assurance meetings with an emphasis on sharing lessons learned with other, unaffected trusts, identifying trends that require further investigation and agreeing mitigating actions to reduce the chance of recurrence. The learning event protocols are regularly reviewed and updated accordingly.
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