Patient Disclosure

The Patient Safety Act in Ireland requires open disclosure for the following notifiable incidents:

1. Performing surgery on the wrong patient, leading to an unintended and unanticipated death.
2. Performing surgery on the wrong body site, resulting in an unintended and unanticipated death.
3. Carrying out the wrong surgical procedure, resulting in an unintended and unanticipated death.
4. Unintended retention of a foreign object following surgery, leading to an unanticipated death.
5. Any unintended and unanticipated death of an otherwise healthy patient undergoing elective surgery, where the death is directly linked to the surgical operation or anesthesia administration (including recovery from anesthesia effects).
6. Any unintended and unanticipated death that is directly connected to any medical treatment.
7. Patient death due to the transfusion of ABO incompatible blood or blood components, where the death was unintended and unanticipated.
8. Patient death associated with a medication error, where the death was unintended and unanticipated.
9. An unanticipated death of a pregnant woman within 42 days of the end of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or exacerbated by the management of the pregnancy, and which did not arise from or was a consequence of the patient’s illness or underlying condition.
10. An unanticipated stillbirth or perinatal death.
11. An unintended death where the cause is believed to be the suicide of a patient while receiving care in a healthcare setting.