“The reduction of lex Maria notifications”
“the Number of lex Maria notifications to the Inspectorate for health and social care (IVO) decreased by 25 per cent last year.”
“according to the agency’s annual report.”
“Lex Maria regarding situations that occurred in the health – care system where patients are affected by or subjected to a risk of maladministration or iatrogenic harm, something that the staff have a statutory obligation to report.”
“the Reason for the decrease is, according to IVO that the mandatory notification requirement for suicide that occurred close in time after a care contact was deleted on 1 september 2017.”
“– to remove the effect, it is not any jättedifferens, ” says the chief financial officer Anna Hedström.”
“Even the notifications according to lex Sarah, which is the lex Maria’s equivalent in social care, decreased last year, with 10 per cent.”
“in the case of complaints that are coming in to IVO from, for example, the patient and the patients have rather increased, from 5 823 registered complaints in 2017 to 6 537 registered complaints in 2018.”
“the Majority relating to children and young people.”
“Probably this has to do with the fact that it has become easier to do these reports,” says Hedström.”