HIQA publishes database of statutory notifications from care units
More than 120,00 notifications from designated centres were received between 2013 and 2019
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has today (February 26 ) published an open access database of statutory notifications.
Statutory notifications describe significant events and incidents that occur in a designated centre, such as in a nursing home or a residential centre for people with disabilities, and are reportable to the public health watchdog.
In 2020, as part of the LENS Project to learn from notifications in social care, HIQA was awarded €250,000 from the Health Research Board to carry out a comprehensive overview of the statutory notification data it receives from social care services in Ireland.