The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will launch an online system next April to directly receive reports from nursing care providers when accidents, such as falls or medication errors involving care recipients, occur at their facilities.
The system is intended to help central and local health authorities quickly identify accidents, enabling them to analyze the causes and develop measures that could help prevent similar incidents.
Nursing care providers are currently required to report accidents to municipal governments. However, municipalities are not required to share the information with the central government.
As a result, the national government has been unable to obtain a comprehensive picture of such incidents, making it difficult to analyze nationwide trends and consider improvements.
Reports from care providers are also sometimes submitted on paper, creating an administrative burden for both providers and municipalities.
Under the new system, information entered by care providers will be automatically sent to the central and local governments.
This will allow municipalities to identify accidents more quickly while enabling the national government to collect comprehensive data on incidents across the country.
The ministry will also standardize accident-reporting forms, which currently vary among municipalities.
The online system will provide common information fields, such as the location and time of an accident, the care recipient’s level of required nursing care and any injuries sustained, as well as the provider’s response and analysis of the cause. The standardized format is expected to improve reporting accuracy.
Translated by The Japan Times
Source: The Japan Times
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