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Inspection readiness, Ireland

HIQA inspection readiness quiz for Irish services

This HIQA readiness check is 11 questions drawn from the National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare and HIQA's assessment judgment framework. Answer each one and you get a score for each theme, the three things to fix first, and the HIQA guide and template for each. wai is clinic software built to help you achieve a compliant HIQA inspection.

Updated , and every standard links to hiqa.ie.

The 11 questions

  1. Person-centred care and supportIs informed consent obtained in accordance with legislation and national policy, and recorded?

    Drawn from 1.5 Service users' informed consent to care and treatment is obtained in accordance with legislation, HIQA

  2. Person-centred care and supportAre complaints and concerns answered promptly and openly, with the learning fed back?

    Drawn from 1.8 Service users' complaints and concerns are responded to promptly, openly and effectively, HIQA

  3. Person-centred care and supportDo service users take part in decisions about their own care, with that discussion recorded?

    Drawn from 1.4 Service users are enabled to participate in making informed decisions about their care, HIQA

  4. Effective care and supportDoes one identified healthcare professional hold overall responsibility for each service user's care?

    Drawn from 2.4 An identified healthcare professional has overall responsibility and accountability, HIQA

  5. Effective care and supportIs all the information needed for effective care available at the point of care?

    Drawn from 2.5 All information necessary to support the provision of effective care, HIQA

  6. Safe care and supportAre patient-safety incidents identified, managed and reported, with the required notifications made?

    Drawn from 3.3 Service providers effectively identify, manage, respond to and report on patient-safety incidents, HIQA

  7. Safe care and supportWould a service user be told openly, and supported, as soon as possible after an incident?

    Drawn from 3.5 Service providers fully and openly inform and support service users as soon as possible after an incident, HIQA

  8. Safe care and supportAre all reasonable measures taken to protect service users from abuse?

    Drawn from 3.4 Service providers ensure all reasonable measures are taken to protect service users from abuse, HIQA

  9. Leadership, governance and managementAre accountability arrangements clear and written down, with one person answerable for quality and safety?

    Drawn from 5.1 Service providers have clear accountability arrangements, HIQA

  10. Leadership, governance and managementIs your statement of purpose publicly available, and does it describe the service you actually provide?

    Drawn from 5.3 Service providers maintain a publicly available statement of purpose, HIQA

  11. Use of informationAre healthcare records managed under effective arrangements, complete and retrievable?

    Drawn from 8.3 Service providers have effective arrangements for the management of healthcare records, HIQA

Email me the full report

Answer every question above and we will email your score for each theme, the three things to fix first and the guide for each.

The score for each theme, the three things to fix first and the guide and template for each, in your inbox.

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What the questions are drawn from

Each theme below is HIQA's own, with the page where HIQA publishes it. The HIQA hub explains the whole framework, and its guides carry the templates.

  1. 3 questionsPerson-centred care and supporthiqa.ie
  2. 2 questionsEffective care and supporthiqa.ie
  3. 3 questionsSafe care and supporthiqa.ie
  4. 2 questionsLeadership, governance and managementhiqa.ie
  5. 1 questionUse of informationhiqa.ie
  6. HIQA hubHIQA software, the framework and every guide

Questions

Where do the HIQA questions come from?

Each question is drawn from the National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare and HIQA's assessment judgment framework, and names the standard it comes from with a link to the regulator's own page. The facts were checked against hiqa.ie on 15 October 2026.

Does the score predict my HIQA compliance judgment?

No. The score shows where your evidence is strong and where it is thin, theme by theme, so you know what to work on first. HIQA decides the compliance judgment after its own assessment.

Does HIQA endorse this quiz or wai?

Health Information and Quality Authority registers and rates providers. It does not approve, certify or endorse software, wai included, and software cannot earn a compliance judgment on a provider's behalf. wai keeps the records your team uses to show HIQA how care is delivered, and HIQA decides the compliance judgment.

What happens to my answers?

Your answers are scored in your browser and stay there. They are sent to us only if you ask for the full report by email, and then only to write and send it.

See your HIQA evidence kept as the work is done.

We show wai on your own diary, notes and inbox in a 15 minute video call. wai is built to help you achieve a compliant HIQA inspection, and HIQA decides the compliance judgment.

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Other regulators

Every readiness quiz
  1. EnglandCQC readiness quiz
  2. Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDHA readiness quiz
  3. SingaporeHCSA readiness quiz
  4. Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesDOH readiness quiz
  5. Hong KongORPHF readiness quiz
  6. International, with the Gulf and Asia firstJCI readiness quiz
  7. United StatesJoint Commission readiness quiz
  8. United StatesAAAHC readiness quiz
  9. AustraliaNSQHS and RACGP readiness quiz
  10. ScotlandHIS readiness quiz
  11. WalesHIW readiness quiz
  12. Northern IrelandRQIA readiness quiz
  13. QatarMOPH readiness quiz
  14. KuwaitKuwait MOH readiness quiz
  15. Kingdom of BahrainNHRA readiness quiz
  16. Sultanate of OmanOman MOH readiness quiz
  17. FranceHAS readiness quiz
  18. Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec, CanadaCanada readiness quiz
  19. Aotearoa New ZealandNgā Paerewa readiness quiz
  20. Zurich and Geneva, SwitzerlandSwiss cantonal licensing readiness quiz
  21. IndiaNABH readiness quiz
  22. MalaysiaMOH and MSQH readiness quiz
  23. GermanyQM-RL readiness quiz
  24. Madrid and Cataluña, SpainSpanish autorización sanitaria readiness quiz
  25. the NetherlandsIGJ readiness quiz
  26. South AfricaHPCSA and OHSC readiness quiz
  27. EgyptGAHAR readiness quiz
  28. JapanMHLW readiness quiz
  29. South KoreaKOIHA readiness quiz
  30. Brazil, worked through São Paulo and Rio de JaneiroANVISA, CFM and ONA readiness quiz

Sources

  1. 1Health Information and Quality Authority, 2024National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare, Version 2 (2024), in operation from 26 September 2024Read source