Summary
The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is an independent authority established to drive high-quality and safe care for people using our health and social care services in Ireland. HIQA’s mandate to date extends across a specified range of public, private and voluntary sector services. Reporting to the Minister for Health and engaging with the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, HIQA’s role is to develop standards, inspect and review health and social care services and support informed decisions on how services are delivered.
Content
The purpose of this guide is to provide an understanding of the HIQA 2019 approach to HIQA’s Medication Safety Monitoring Programme against the National Standards for Safer, Better Healthcare to ensure patient safety in relation to medication safety.
This guidance document includes information about the:
- background to HIQA’s medication safety monitoring programme
- the next phase of this monitoring programme
- focus on high-risk medications and high-risk situations
- format of HIQA’s hospital inspections
- risk identification and notification processes
- HIQA inspection reports.
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