HIQA - Delivering for you
Setting Standards in Health & Social Services
Developing the quality and safety standards, based on evidence and best international practice, for health and social care services (except mental health services) in Ireland.
Monitoring Health Care Quality
Monitoring standards of quality and safety in our health services, implementing continuous quality assurance programmes.
Social Services Inspectorate
Registration and inspection of residential homes for children, older people and people with disabilities. Monitoring of foster care services, day and pre-school facilities and inspecting children's detention centres.
Health Technology Assessment
Ensuring the best outcome for the service user by evaluating the clinical and economic effectiveness of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics techniques and health promotion activities.
Health Information
Publishing information on Ireland's health and social care services; advising on the collection and sharing of information across the services and on the implementation of information technologies.
The Health Information and Quality Authority has published its Guidance for the Health Service Executive for the Review of Serious Incidents, including Deaths of Children in Care.
This report is produced in response to the Department of Health and Children’s implementation plan towards the Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse.
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The Authority has presented this report to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Barry Andrews, TD and the Authority will require the HSE, and all organisations involved in the provision of care to children, to implement the recommendations as soon as possible. |
Call for Children's Standards Consultation
The Authority has published the Draft National Quality Standards for Residential and Foster Care Services for Children and Young People. We are inviting feedback from the public, children and young people themselves and interested parties. The deadline for receipt of submissions is 31 March 2010.
Backlog of x-rays at AMNCH Tallaght
We have issued a statement regarding the backlog of unreported radiology films at the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin incorporating the National Children’s Hospital (AMNCH) Tallaght.