Ensuring data quality is the responsibility of all health and social care staff – not just the clinical staff, data quality manager, the records management team or the IT department, writes Professor Jane Grimson, Director of Health Information and Deputy Chief Executive of HIQA.
Like many of the lycra-covered lovelies pounding public roads all across Ireland at this time of the year, health service managers are working out their flabby-bottomed balance sheets in an attempt to slim down, writes Laurence Nightingale.
The 2013 HSE Service Plan is so deluged with figures for gross spending, net spending, over-runs, savings required, unavoidable budget pressures, reductions, risks and caveats that it is difficult for ordinary mortals to work out exactly how much money will be available to the different services, writes Maureen Browne.