HSE National Procedure
Procedure for Managing Open Disclosure within the Provisions of Part 4 of the Civil Liability (Amendment) Act 2017 and Civil Liability (Open Disclosure) (Prescribed Statements) Regulations 2018
Topic:
Open disclosure
Document Owner:
National quality improvement team
National Group:
National quality and patient safety directorate
Effective From: 12 December 2018
A statutory process of voluntary open disclosure of patient safety incidents
There is now also a new statutory process of voluntary open disclosure of patient safety incidents (for convenience, referred to here as “Civil Liability Act (CLA) Open Disclosure”). CLA Open Disclosure is a process set out in legislation called the Civil Liability (Amendment) Act, 2017. It commenced on 22nd September 2018 and provides important protections regarding information and apologies given during the CLA Open Disclosure process.