The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is carrying out a National Engagement on Digital Health and Social Care in partnership with the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive (HSE).

The aim of the engagement is to identify professionals’ and the public’s wants, needs, and readiness for digital health and social care. This includes learning about the attitudes of health and social care professionals to the public having digital access to their own health and social care information and possible impacts of digital care for professionals and the public.

HIQA is asking you to take the online survey because it is important to hear the views of professionals on this timely subject. The survey will take 15 minutes to complete and is available until the 22nd October.

HIQA is seeking the opinions of professionals in dentistry, medicine, nursing and midwifery, pharmacy, pre-hospital emergency care, psychology, and those registered with CORU (Ireland's multi-profession health regulator).   

The findings of the national engagement will be used by HIQA, the Department of Health, and the HSE to help develop recommendations, strategies, policies, and legislation in relation to the digitisation of health and social care services. The results will be made available on www.hiqa.ie.

For more information and to complete the survey, please visit the HIQA website.