The PHA Nursing and Allied Health Professions Directorate is responsible for:
Through the Directorate, the PHA provides:
The Health Foundation is an independent charity working to continuously improve the quality of healthcare in the UK.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for profit organisation based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. IHI focuses on:
This year celebrates 10 years of the Scottish Quality and Safety Fellowship. The Fellowship supports healthcare staff to learn about leadership and how to improve the delivery of safe patient care.
This year’s annual networking event, Thinking Differently, Inspiring Excellence was held in Edinburgh and attended by over 100 current and previous SQSF Fellows and Health and Social Care leaders from the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia.
The HSC Safety Forum has themed its work for quality and safety in healthcare under four main headings. Relevant papers and articles are listed below under these themes. In addition, a further section for general documents on patient safety-related areas has also been included.
The Northern Ireland Cerebral Palsy Register (NICPR) is a confidential record of children and young people living with cerebral palsy within Northern Ireland.
The NICPR is held at the Queen's University of Belfast and is funded by the Public Health Agency. Contact from parents and people with cerebral palsy is particularly welcome.
Personal and Public Involvement (PPI) is the active and effective involvement of service users, carers and the public in Health and Social Care (HSC) services.
A number of key PHA staff are instrumental in taking forward governance issues, including a Senior Operations Manager, a Chief Executive Office and Committee Manager and a Governance Manager.
The PHA is obliged to ensure that all funding is allocated in a manner that meets with standards of practice required of a statutory organisation. Below are the processes used by the PHA.