Irish Database of Statutory Notifications from Social Care
Health Information and Quality Authority
(HIQA).
2020
The LENS (LEarning from Statutory Notifications in Social Care) Project is a
HIQA initiative to compile statutory notification data into an analysable database
and to use these data to inform quality and safety improvements in social care services.
The LENS Project is funded by Health Research Board’s Secondary Data Analysis Project
Grant [SDAP-2019-005] and co-funded by HIQA.
The database includes notifications received from specified social care services,
primarily residential centres for older persons and people with disabilities.
Republic of Ireland.
Data from 2013 to 2020 is currently available and data is added on a yearly basis.
The Chief Inspector in HIQA is responsible for regulating nursing homes and residential services for people with disabilities (collectively referred to herein as designated centres). Among the regulatory requirements of designated centres is the reporting of incidents and adverse events that occur in their services, to the Chief Inspector. Some events are required to be reported within three days (for example, serious injury, outbreak of disease) and others are reported every three months (for example, pattern of theft or burglary, use of restrictive practices).
Residents of social care services; advocates; health researchers; regulatory agencies.
Any information relevant to the regulatory requirement to submit statutory notifications in accordance with regulations for the care and welfare of people living in nursing homes and residential disability services.
There is a data dictionary available for the open access version: https://www.hiqa.ie/sites/default/files/2021-02/Database-of-Statutory-Notifications-from-Social-Care-Open-Access_Data-Dictionary.pdf
It is a requirement that there is no personally identifiable information submitted for the dataset.
N/A.
Designated centres for older people and people with a disability are required to submit notifications to the Chief Inspector in HIQA under the Health Act 2007 and associated regulations.
N/A.
80,000
Yearly.
Open access is available online here: https://www.hiqa.ie/areas-we-work/Database-of-Statutory-Notifications
The full-version is only available to HIQA staff internally or by request to lens@hiqa.ie
No.