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.
2024 marks HIQA’s 15th anniversary of the regulation of nursing homes and we are planning to hold a national event for nursing home providers on 17 October. The event will look back over the last 15 years of regulation of nursing homes, the changes which have occurred and the plans for the future.
Members of our team have been attending a variety of conferences over the last number of months, and used these opportunities to discuss and exchange ideas with national and international colleagues. For example, attending the recent National Patient Safety Office and European Social Network conferences among others.
Last month, we published our third annual overview report of lessons learned from receipt of statutory notifications of accidental and unintended exposures to ionising radiation.
We recently attended an event to celebrate residents moving out of campus accommodation and into more suitable housing in their local community.
As highlighted in the previous issue of our newsletter, the profile of nursing homes in Ireland continues to change with a number of nursing homes recently announcing their closure.
Engagement with providers of disability services is critical to our work as a regulator. We continue to hold provider representative forum meetings, and are running a series of roadshow events with providers and persons in charge across the country next month.
Welcome to the 50th edition of our newsletter.
Across the years and 50 issues, we have remained committed to not only working to improve the quality and safety of health and social care services, but also to keeping the people who use, provide and fund services informed about our work. This commitment is set out in our recently published Corporate Plan for 2022-2024.
Earlier this week, we published an overview report on our inspection findings in residential centres for people with disabilities in 2021.
During the year, we carried out 1,220 inspections, finding that the majority of centres provided a good standard of care and support to people with disabilities. However, the findings highlighted increasing non-compliance with oversight and management of centres.
