Supporting people’s autonomy: a guidance document
| dc.contributor.author | Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-11T12:02:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-11T12:02:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10147/624774 | |
| dc.description | This guidance document is produced by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). It supports the commitments made by HIQA in 2013 to ensure that the rights of vulnerable services users are placed at the heart of our work, whether that be in development of standards and guidance or in our assessment of the quality and safety of services through our programmes of regulation. It is HIQA’s belief that through our increased focus on rights, those providing services will become increasingly aware of their responsibilities in promoting and protecting service users. The core human rights principles to be found in HIQA’s standards and service assessments can be summarised as: fairness respect equality dignity autonomy HIQA’s motivation in developing and adopting a rights-based approach and in the development of associated guidance is that it can enable a move beyond questions of strict legal compliance to ensuring delivery of effective public services which respect individual rights and put the needs of individual service users at their heart. The purpose of this guidance on autonomy is to help services to demonstrate how they show respect for human dignity, how they provide person-centred care, and how they ensure an informed consent process that values personal choice and decision-making. By ensuring that people’s autonomy is respected, service providers will improve the quality of care, safety and quality of life of people who use health and social care services. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) | en_US |
| dc.subject | PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES | en_US |
| dc.subject | DISABILITIES | en_US |
| dc.subject | AUTONOMY | en_US |
| dc.subject | QUALITY OF LIFE | en_US |
| dc.subject | HUMAN RIGHTS | en_US |
| dc.subject | EMPOWERMENT | en_US |
| dc.title | Supporting people’s autonomy: a guidance document | en_US |
| dc.type | Guideline | en_US |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | English | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2019-07-11T12:02:19Z |
