Irish Database of Statutory Notifications from Social Care)

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).

Purpose: 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

Coverage: Republic of Ireland.

Data from 2013 to 2020 is currently available and data is added on a yearly basis.