The first inspection reports on International Protection Accommodation Service centres were published in April, outlining the levels of compliance with the national standards in four centres around the country.
The majority of designated centres for people with disabilities provided a good standard of care and support, according to our 2022 overview report of the inspection and regulation of designated centres for people with disabilities.
2022 was another challenging year for many children’s services across the country, according to our annual overview report of the inspection and regulation of children’s services.
We conducted 54 inspections throughout the year, and found improved levels of compliance against national standards and regulations in children’s services. However, areas requiring further improvements were also identified.
We continue to inspect in nursing homes across Ireland and are planning a number of events to engage with providers, persons in charge and persons participating in management later this year.
We have published six inspection reports on monitoring in public acute hospitals in recent months. The inspections were carried out at University Hospital Kerry, Cork University Maternity Hospital, Tallaght University Hospital, Letterkenny University Hospital, Nass General Hospital and Regional Hospital Mullingar.
Earlier this month we published our overview report on our regulation and monitoring of older persons services in 2020 and 2021.
We conducted 947 inspections of nursing homes in the two years when the sector was faced with unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We recently published an overview report of our monitoring programme against the national standards in emergency departments in 2022.
Throughout 2022, HIQA commenced a new monitoring programme of inspections in healthcare services against the National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare.
Our inspections of child protection and welfare services since 2019 found significant improvements had been made in the services children received.
Our recent overview report of foster care services found that not all children in foster care were allocated a social worker or were visited by one in line with regulations.
Earlier this week, we published an overview of our monitoring and inspections in Irish healthcare services. We found that while the hospital system adapted quickly to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, longstanding issues with poor physical infrastructure, capacity and workforce challenges, often hindered these efforts.
Throughout 2020, we focused our resources on known areas of risk in public acute hospitals and rehabilitation and community inpatient services.
