Welcome to our newsletter.
The focus of this issue of the newsletter is on listening and responding to people who use health and social care services, and working collaboratively with them to effect change.
We recently published two major Overview Reports which look back over our experience, as a regulatory body, of regulating centres for people with disabilities and children’s services in Ireland across a 10-year period.
Our role is to inspect and monitor residential care, special care, foster care and child protection and welfare services and, earlier this week, we published a report on our monitoring and regulation of these services over the past 10 years.
In November, we published a 10 year overview report on the regulation of residential disability services for over 9,000 people with disabilities.
The report set out the impact of regulation over that time frame, detailing our findings and learnings in the key areas of governance and management, a human rights-based approach to care, restrictive practices, safeguarding and protection, and general welfare and development, as well as reflecting on current and future challenges for the sector.
A record 12,367 patients took part in the sixth National Inpatient Experience Survey, sharing feedback on their experience of care in Irish hospitals. The survey revealed that the majority of respondents (85%) rated their hospital care experience positively, with 58% rating their care as “very good” and 27% as “good”.
The survey is part of the National Care Experience Programme, a joint initiative by HIQA, the HSE and the Department of Health.
Take part in our public consultation and help inform the development of draft National Standards for Home Support Services. These are the first ever national standards for home support services in Ireland and they aim to drive improvements in the provision of home support services, so that people have the best outcomes possible.
The consultation closes on Friday, 13 December at 5pm.
The National Maternity Experience Survey will commence in February 2025. Women aged 16 and over who give birth in February or March 2025 will be eligible to take part in the survey. They will receive an invitation to take the survey approximately three months after they give birth.
Our public consultation on draft guidelines for the justification of medical radiological procedures on asymptomatic individuals is open until 5pm on Wednesday, 18 December 2024.
These guidelines, when finalised, will apply to any person or organisation conducting medical radiological procedures, including individual professionals involved in providing medical radiological procedures in dental and medical settings.
Dr Niamh O’Rourke, HIQA’s Deputy Director of Health and Social Care Standards, attended the European Social Network European Parliament Round Table in Brussels last month, and delivered a presentation about our national standards for health and social care.
Welcome to our October newsletter.
An important theme in this month’s newsletter is working collaboratively with key stakeholders to support improvements in the quality and safety of health and social care services delivery. This is one of our core values as a regulator. We value the collaborative partnerships that we have with a diverse range of stakeholders and the feedback that we receive from them about our work.
Over the past few months, we have been working on our Corporate Plan 2025-2027, which will set out our strategic direction, mission, vision and values and our strategic objectives.
Members of the public and stakeholders are invited to share their views on HIQA’s future direction through a public consultation on our draft Corporate Plan 2025-2027.
