The Latest Breaking News from HIQA

Calls for 'thorough' investigation after report highlights grooming of girls in state care

Sinn Fein deputy Kathleen Funchion has called on HIQA and Tusla to launch a full investigation after the findings were made public

Dublin Live · Jun 23, 2023

Teenagers with disabilities were confined to bedrooms for 25 days because a lift in home was broken, report finds

The Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) carried out an unannounced inspection of the Woodbrook Lodge home for children with a disability in Monaghan on January 25

Irish Mirror · May 9, 2023

'Unprecedented strain' on emergency departments not acceptable – minister

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald said the HIQA report is a 'damning indictment' of Government health policy

Irish Mirror · Dec 14, 2022

Over eight in 10 patients had 'good experience' in hospitals in 2021 despite struggling health service and raging Covid-19

The results of the National Inpatient Experience survey will come as a welcome relief to the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly

Irish Mirror · May 9, 2022

Disability Minister Anne Rabbitte seeks independent review of HSE disability services in Northwest region

'There's a worrying trend here in CHO1 Northwest that we need to get under the bonnet on it'

Irish Mirror · Feb 16, 2022

Minister seeks independent review of HSE disability services in Northwest

Anne Rabbitte said there is a pattern of failure to protect residents with disabilities in the Community Healthcare Organisation One in the region.

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2022

143 cases of suspected sex abuse reported in nursing homes and residential disability centres

Last year was the worst with 32 reported incidents followed by 2016 with 27.

Irish Mirror · Feb 14, 2022