s 12IE Duty to have arrangements to address severe and recurrent risks
(1) It is the duty of every Health Board and the Agency to put and keep in place arrangements to— (a) collate information relating to every risk escalated to such level as the Health Board or the Agency (as the case may be) consider appropriate in accordance with the arrangements put in place under section 12ID(2), and (b) identify and address those risks which are considered to be either or both— (i) severe, (ii) liable to materialise frequently. (2) The arrangements under subsection (1) must, in particular, include a procedure for— (a) the recording of a risk as described in subsection (1)(b), (b) the reporting of any such risk, as necessary, to a more senior decision-maker, including in appropriate cases to the members of the Health Board or the Agency (as the case may be), (c) the mitigation of the risk, so far as possible, and a requirement for appropriate clinical advice to be sought and had regard to in carrying out such mitigation, and (d) the identification of actions to prevent the future materialisation of the risk, so far as possible.