Our Standards Team has reviewed how a number of health and social care organisations and agencies from across nine jurisdictions develop national standards and guidance for their particular healthcare and social care services.
This review involved the HIQA Standards Team conducting teleconference calls with key experts from each of the health and social care agencies to discuss their processes and their future direction and priorities.
We are very grateful for the assistance of these agencies, which are located in:
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Australia
New Zealand
Denmark
Ontario
Sweden.
Linda Weir, HIQA’s Standards Manager, comments: “The findings from the international review informed our discussions on HIQA’s upcoming Corporate Plan 2019–2021, which will include our future plans for developing national standards and guidance for health and social care services.
“This international review, along with a comprehensive engagement with internal and external informed and interested parties, has helped to improve HIQA’s current methodology for developing national standards and guidance for health and social care services in Ireland.”
The findings from the international review will be published on the HIQA website later in 2018.