Heath and Social Care Regulatory Forum: New Publication

This new publication (Framework for Public and Service User Involvement in Health and Social Care Regulation in Ireland) was published by the forum in order to promote greater service user involvement between agencies responsible for patient safety, and to ensure high quality in the Irish Health Services.

The Irish Medicines Board believes that “Service users and members of the public should be involved in the work of regulatory bodies:

• To promote openness and transparency by enabling the public to review service quality and be directly involved in the development of rules and standards;
• To act as a safety solution so that health and social services can learn from the experiences of service users, carers and others, particularly as it relates to adverse events;
• To improve the quality of regulated services by ensuring that services are sensitive to the needs and preferences of service users and the public; and
• To focus the work of regulatory bodies on service users and encourage public accountability.”


In the report, there are 5 levels of user (both public and service) involvement:

1. Inform and Educate
2. Gather Information
3. Discuss
4. Engage
5. Partner

Please click here for the Framework for Public and Service User Involvement.

Source - http://www.imb.ie/EN/Publications/Publications/New-Publication-by-Health-and-Social-Care-Regulatory-Forum-.aspx?page=5&year=0&categoryid=&letter=&q