The provision of care, protection, psychosocial support and advocacy in partnership with individuals and groups who experience marginalisation, disadvantage or special needs.

A rail or board along the side of a bed, for example one that connects the headboard with the footboard.

A flexible or rigid supportive device used to maintain or support a joint of body part's position(s) to promote pain reduction or healing.

Used to describe a bathroom that is directly connected to a bedroom, usually for the sole use of the occupants of the bedroom.

A facility for children with very high support needs aged between 11 and 17 years of age which is intended to be a short-term, stabilising, safe and secure therapeutic environment. It is a premises, or a part of premises, comprising secure residential accommodation in which a child, in respect of whom a special care order or an interim special care order has been made, is detained for the purpose of the provision to that child of special care and includes accommodation and facilities required for the provision of special care.

An official examination of records and practices.

The regionalised organisational structures of the Health Service Executive (HSE) that providies community and primary healthcare services in Ireland.

Allegations about a service being unsatisfactory or a service user being mistreated.

Collaborative practice happens when multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together with service users, families, carers and communities to deliver the highest quality of care across settings.

A person (either natual or by law) providing residential care services in ireland operating in line with the Health Act 2007 (as amended) registered with HIQA.

A large cluster of health care related professions and personnel whose functions include assisting, facilitating, or complementing the work of physicians and other specialists in the health and social care system, and who choose to be identified as allied health personnel.

A person with a qualification that allows them to provide one or more of a range of health care services.