Patient safety incidents cost health service around €190m

The Irish Patients Association said the findings provided little comfort to patients and suggest  the health service is standing still on the issue of patient safety.

An estimated 54,000 patient safety or adverse incidents occurred in Irish public hospitals in 2015 costing the health service an estimated €190m in additional costs for extended hospital stays and treatment.

That’s according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal showing that the volume of adverse incidents in hospitals "remained stable" between 2009 and 2015.