Issue 24 – Page 2

Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections in hospitals

We are continuing with our unannounced hygiene inspections in public acute hospitals.

Children’s Team update on foster care inspection programme

So far in 2018, our Children’s Team has completed two further themed inspections of Child and Family Agency (Tusla) foster care services.

Photocall — Healthcare Professionalism in Ireland Conference

Pictured is Tessy Huss, our National Patient Experience Survey Project Lead, who won first prize for her research poster entitled ‘Professionalism in the public acute hospital setting: Lessons from the National Patient Experience Survey’ presented at the RCSI’s inaugural conference on healthcare professionalism in Ireland, held in Dublin on 12 April. The poster details patient perspectives of professionalism in public acute hospitals and is based on the results of the 2017 National Patient Experience Survey. All posters presented on the day were automatically entered into a poster competition. Tess and the team’s senior analyst Conor Foley designed the poster together.

2018 National Patient Experience Survey

Tracy O’Carroll, National Patient Experience Project Manager, left, and Trudi Mason from the survey team pictured at an information event in Galway on our 2018 National Patient Experience Survey

The National Patient Experience Survey 2018 has received ethical approval from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI). This year, the survey will be extended to 16 and 17 year olds.

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Photocall — National Patient Experience Survey @ UL Hospital Group

HIQA recently visited the UL Hospital Group to promote the 2018 National Patient Experience Survey, which starts in May. Pictured on right is Rachel Flynn, our Director of Health Information and Standards, along with June Boulger, the Health Service Executive (HSE) Lead for the National Patient Experience Survey (2nd from left), with the UL Hospital Group Team led by Miriam McCarthy and Catherine Hand, Patient Advocacy Liaison Managers.

Review of information management practices at BreastCheck

Our Health Information Quality team continues to implement a new structured review programme of assessing compliance with Information Management Standards for national data collections in Ireland.

Draft national infection prevention and control standards for community services

Linda Weir, HIQA’s Standards Manager

We received great public feedback on our Draft national infection prevention and control standards for community services, which are aimed at all health and social care services provided in the community. We are currently considering all of the submissions received.

Adult safeguarding standards for health and social care services

HIQA and the Mental Health Commission (MHC) are developing joint national adult safeguarding standards for health and social care services.

ePrescribing update from our Technical Standards team

In order to inform the future direction of community-based ePrescribing in Ireland, our Technical Standards team has recently finalised an updated international review of how other countries are using ePrescribing — how services generate a prescription electronically rather than in handwriting, how these are transferred and how they are used to support medication reconciliation.