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The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA, / ˈ h ɪ k w æ /; Irish: An t-Údarás um Fhaisnéis agus Cáilíocht Sláinte) is a statutory, government-funded agency in Ireland which monitors the safety and quality of the healthcare and social care systems. [1]
The Leas Cross scandal erupted in Ireland when the nursing home with this name, located near Swords in Dublin, closed several weeks after a 2005 Prime Time television report revealed sub-standard living conditions there. [1] The documentary showed a patient with several bedsores who went on to develop MRSA. [2]
This is a list of hospitals in the Republic of Ireland. This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) Connacht.
Savita Halappanavar [3] [4] (née Savita Andanappa Yalagi; 9 September 1981 – 28 October 2012) was a dentist [1] of Indian origin, living in Ireland, who died from sepsis after her request for an abortion after a prolonged miscarriage was denied on legal grounds. [5]
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In July 2014 a number of serious hygiene issues were raised during an unscheduled inspection of the hospital by Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). These issues concerned the management of blood monitoring equipment at the hospital, and inspectors found blood-stained sticky tape on a window sill beside a patient's bed, as well as failure to dispose of used blood sampling equipment.
Dublin — Ireland's opposition party Sinn Féin looked on course to narrowly win the popular vote in the country's general election on Friday, an exit poll suggested, but its two main political ...
Professor O'Reilly said "Covid-19 as an oncologist made me do things professionally that I don’t want to do again. But the cyber-attack was worse than Covid" to the Policy Forum for Ireland keynote seminar ‘Next steps for cancer services in Ireland’. [71] He also said "It was a very difficult time. Results were frozen on the computer.