How the right system turns Patient Safety Act 2023 compliance into genuine patient safety improvement

At the Patient Safety Leaders' Summit in Dublin on 2 June, patient safety leads from across acute, voluntary and community healthcare identified a gap that sits at the heart of Patient Safety Act 2023 compliance. When incidents are reported directly to NIMS, the obligation is met — but the record lives in a government portal, not in your organization. Your own categories, context, improvement actions, thematic analysis and board assurance disappear with it. This session shows you how to meet every PSA 2023 obligation and keep your incident governance where it can actually drive change.

In this 60-minute session, you will learn how to capture incidents in your own system first — with your own categories, conditional logic and AI-assisted categorization — and produce a NIMS submission from that record. You will discover how automated tracking across the 48-hour, 5-day and 7-day notification windows removes the reliance on any one person being available. You will learn how open disclosure can be planned and documented within the same incident record, creating the HIQA audit trail without a separate system. And you will see how thematic analysis across your own incident data surfaces the patterns that prevent the next incident from occurring.

By the end of this session, you will understand how the Patient Safety Act 2023 can be a vehicle for genuine patient safety improvement, not just a regulatory submission. Your incident data will work for your organization — driving improvement actions, informing your board and giving HIQA the evidence they need. You will leave with a clear picture of how to meet every obligation, keep every record in-house and use your data to make care measurably safer.