Publications

Draft National Quality Assurance Criteria for Clinical Guidelines support the development of high quality clinical guidelines in Ireland. We held a public consultation on this. The closing date for feedback was 25 August 2011.

Please note that the National Quality Assurance Criteria for Clinical Guidelines were published on 26 October 2011

The purpose of this report is to advise and make recommendations to the Minister for Health and Children, and the Health Service Executive (HSE), under section 8(1)j of the Health Act 2007, on the introduction of key performance indicators for national pre-hospital emergency care response times. The current absence of such indicators has been identified by the Authority as a gap in the information available in respect of the safety and quality of services. Please note that the Authority has subsequently published Version 1.1 of this document in October 2012.

KPIs promote accountability to service users by facilitating comparisons with other organisations and to stated objectives or targets of an organisation. Further, they promote accountability to central Government for the efficient use of resources with other comparable organisations.  Please note that the Authority has subsequently published Version 1.1 of this document in February 2013.

In order to drive continuous improvements in hygiene services, and help reduce the occurrence of healthcare associated infections, the Health Information and Quality Authority has conducted a second national review into the quality of hygiene services. This second National Hygiene Services Quality Review monitors the compliance of all the Health Service Executive and Voluntary acute care hospitals in Ireland against the National Hygiene Services Quality Review 2008: Standards and Criteria. It also compares the hospitals’ aggregate and individual scores with last year’s performance.