Residential disability services to face inspections

ALL residential services for people with disabilities will be inspected against a new set of national quality standards to be finalised by the tate’s health services watchdog later this year.

New draft standards published yesterday by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) set out what a quality, safe service for people with physical and intellectual disabilities in residential services should be.

HIQA has now begun a consultation process and information collected will be used to develop a final set of standards later this year.