• Standards

    Standards

    We develop national standards to promote safety and quality in health and social care services in Ireland. To do this, we look at international best practice in health and social care and talk to service users and services.

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  • Guides

    Guides

    We develop guidance to help services implement national standards and to explain our approach to inspecting and monitoring. We speak with experts, patients, families, carers, front-line staff and managers in order to produce guidance.

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  • Key Reports

    Key Reports & Investigations

    We work on a number of important reviews, overviews and investigations on health and social care services.

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  • Health Information

    Health Information

    It is important that health information is well managed in order to ensure high-quality, safe care. We review best practice internationally and work with experts to develop recommendations in this field.

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  • Corporate pub

    Corporate Publications

    Our core values put the rights and dignity of people using services as the main focus of all our work. In our corporate publications, we spell out our goals to achieve this.

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  • Health Technology Assessments

    Health Technology Assessments

    Health technology assessment (HTA) is a research process involving many areas of expertise that impartially collects, summarises and presents information about a health technology.

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  • Consultations

    Consultations

    We believe people who use health and social care services and those who provide them can help us to improve the quality and safety of these services by getting involved in public consultations about new care standards.

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  • Clinical Guideline Support

    CICER Clinical Guideline Support

    National Clinical Guidelines aim to provide guidance and standards for improving the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of healthcare in Ireland.

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    Academic Publications

    As part of our vision to inform safer services, better care and decisions and provide independent assessment, we regularly undertake research and publish our work in peer-reviewed academic journals.

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