State Claims Risk Management

Overview

Draft and validate Risk Management reports for state-insured entities (hospitals, prisons, delegated state authorities) in Ireland under the State Claims Agency (SCA) / NTMA. The skill ensures expected sections (executive summary, scope, incidents/trends, mitigation, compliance), tags Protected Disclosure and Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) content for appropriate handling, and aligns with statutory incident reporting via NIMS. For incident-only reports intended for NIMS upload, use the nims_report_standardizer skill to format; this skill focuses on full Risk Management reports.

Example

You: We need a quarterly Risk Management report for our hospital for the board. This quarter we had 14 slips, trips and falls, 3 clinical incidents, and 2 property-damage incidents. All are already in NIMS.

Agent: I’ll draft from the template using those figures and align with NIMS. (Produces a full report with executive summary, scope, incident summary table, trends, claims exposure placeholder, mitigation actions, and compliance/next steps.) I’ve run validate_risk_report on the draft — all five expected sections are present.

You: Our “Claims exposure” section mentions that we sought legal advice on one potential claim. Can you check for anything that should be tagged as privileged?

Agent: (Runs tag_legal_privilege on the report.) It flagged the “Claims exposure” section because it refers to legal advice. I’ve added a note in that section: “This paragraph is subject to Legal Professional Privilege (LPP); restrict distribution accordingly.” You may want to redact or limit that paragraph before wider circulation.

Excerpt of a generated document

The agent produces Risk Management reports from the skill template and SCA references. Below is a condensed excerpt: incident summary table and part of risk mitigation.

Incident summary and mitigation (excerpt):

## 3. Incidents and trends

### 3.1 Incident summary

| Category / type        | Count | Notes                          |
|------------------------|-------|--------------------------------|
| Slips, trips, falls    | 14    | Mostly wards and corridors     |
| Clinical               | 3     | Two medication; one procedure  |
| Property damage        | 2     | Equipment and building          |

### 3.2 Trends and lessons learned

Slips and trips remain the largest category. We have scheduled refresher training and completed a corridor signage review. Clinical incidents are under internal review; findings will feed into the next quarter’s mitigation.

## 5. Risk mitigation

- Refresher training on slips/trips/falls (Q2).
- Medication safety checklist rolled out in two wards; full rollout by end Q2.
- All incidents reported to the State Claims Agency via NIMS in line with statutory requirements.

Extension tools and validations

The skill includes two tools that run over the report file:

validate_risk_report

Checks that the report contains the five expected SCA-style sections:

For each section the tool reports [OK] or [MISSING]. The overall result is All expected sections are present or One or more expected sections missing with a list of gaps. Use after drafting or editing so the report is complete before submission.

tag_legal_privilege

Scans the report by section (split by ## / ### headings) and flags content that may be Protected Disclosure (Protected Disclosures Act 2014) or Legal Professional Privilege (LPP):

• Protected Disclosure: Looks for phrases such as protected disclosure, whistleblow, prescribed person, relevant wrongdoing, disclosure to legal adviser, and similar.
• LPP: Looks for legal professional privilege, LPP, privileged, legal advice, advice from our lawyers/solicitors/counsel, solicitor-client, without prejudice, litigation privilege, and similar.

For each flagged section the tool outputs the heading, the tag (Protected Disclosure or Legal Professional Privilege), and a short content snippet. No text is modified; the output is a list to review so the entity can mark or restrict those sections per policy (e.g. redaction or limited distribution).