The LENS (LEarning From Notifications In Social Care) Project won the ‘Best use of Information Technology’ award at the Irish Healthcare Centre Awards in May. The LENS Project is a three-year secondary data analysis project being undertaken within the HIQA.
We have updated the Irish Database of Statutory Notifications from Social Care with the 39,335 notifications HIQA received from residential social care services in 2021.
The database is part of our LENS Project, which offers an open access database of statutory notifications received by HIQA from nursing homes or a residential centre for people with disabilities.
Last week, a number of our staff members presented at the virtual SPHeRE Network’s 8th Annual Conference, discussing restrictive practices in nursing homes, implementing national standards, evidence synthesis and notifiable incidents in social care services.
In November, a number of our teams presented at the virtual 14th European Public Health Conference on a number of topics, including COVID-19 evidence synthesis, data from social care services, and health information in a changing digital world.
We have updated the Irish Database of Statutory Notifications from Social Care with the 35,695 notifications received during 2020, including data relating to COVID-19 outbreaks in residential care.
The database is part of our LENS Project which aims to learn from statutory notifications received by HIQA from social care services
Last month, we published an open access database of statutory notifications received from social care services in Ireland as part of the LENS Project funded by the Health Research Board.
The database contains over 125,000 notifications received from 2013 to 2019.
