Quality and Patient Safety Directorate (HSE)2016-06-032016-06-032016-05-259781786020147https://hdl.handle.net/10147/611719Across the Irish healthcare system there is strong commitment to improving the quality of care1. This is evident from the various improvement initiatives being undertaken by frontline teams to larger developments and improvement programmes at group, organisation and system level. Improving quality is everybody’s business and to achieve real and sustained improvements we must find new and better ways to achieve the outcomes that we want. The Health Service Executive (HSE) corporate plan is committed to improving the quality of care as set out in its vision: ‘A healthier Ireland with a high quality health service valued by allenPATIENT SAFETYQUALITYCLINICAL GOVERNANCEAUDITReport