Dr Clíodhna Foley-Nolan is a consultant in Public Health Medicine.
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Designated centre
A service that is registered to provide residential care and support in Ireland in accordance with the Health Act 2007.
Premises
The land and buildings owned by an organisation that provides care and support.
Inspection
The act of looking carefully, or an official visit to a building or organisation to check that everything is correct and legal.
Regulation (regulate)
To check that the activities of a business or organisation are legal and follow official rules or laws.
Stable
A term used in describing a patient's medical status. It indicates that the patient's disease process has not changed precipitously or significantly.
Chemical restraint
Is the intentional use of medication to control or modify a person’s behaviour or to ensure they are compliant or not capable of resistance, when no medically identified condition is being treated; where the treatment is not necessary for the condition; or the intended effect of the drug is to sedate the person for convenience or for disciplinary purposes.
Concern
Information provided by a person which describes circumstances where a person may be at risk.
Social care
The provision of care, protection, psychosocial support and advocacy in partnership with individuals and groups who experience marginalisation, disadvantage or special needs.
Assessment
A rapid HTA of gene expression profiling tests for guiding the use of adjuvant chemotherapy in early-stage invasive breast cancer
Updated- Quality Improvement
National procedures for clinical audit of radiological procedures involving medical exposure to ionising radiation
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