Louise Brent, NOCA Head of Audit Management, and Michael Madigan, PPI Representative, present the NOCA Impact Report 2026, showing how audit drives measurable improvements in patient care.
"At NOCA, PPI is not just a checkbox, its a way of putting patients at the centre of their work"
#NOCA2026
📢Speaker Spotlight📢
Join us in Cork and catch Louise Brent's talk about using data to drive improvements in the perioperative care of older adults!
🔗https://emdevents.eventsair.com/aaa-igs-joint-meeting-2026/aaaigsreg #AAA #IGS #SPEAKER
@louisebrent28.bsky.social
#AAA #IGS
Final call to have your say - NOCA’s strategy survey closes Monday at 12PM. We’re developing our 2026–2028 Strategy and want input from all who engage with national clinical audit in Ireland. Take the survey here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
@rosespenfold.bsky.social @marywalsh14.bsky.social @eithnesexton.bsky.social @louisebrent28.bsky.social Pamela Hickey Tara Coughlan @ojedathies.bsky.social @antonyjohansen.bsky.social Andrew Hall @amaclullich.bsky.social Niamh O'Regan Catherine Blake @noca-irl.bsky.social @ucd-chas.bsky.social
For #CAAW25, a NEW article on ‘The value of audit in identifying health inequalities’ is now live!
READ IT HERE: www.hqip.org.uk/article-natc...
SNAP3 has just published looking at the impact of frailty and multimorbidity on outcomes after surgery in a whole UK sample of older patients. #AnSky #GeriSky #SurgSky @rcoanews.bsky.social @rcoa-cri.bsky.social @gerisoc.bsky.social @bjajournals.bsky.social @claireswarbrick.bsky.social
The Irish Paediatric Critical Care Audit National Report 2023 has been published today.
The report presents national data on 1,723 admissions to paediatric critical care units and highlights key trends and areas for improvement.
📄 Read the report: noca.ie/documents/ir...
#IPCCA2025 #CAAW25
🚨 Join us for the launch of the Irish Paediatric Critical Care Audit National Report 2023
📅 Wednesday 4 June 2025
🕚 11:00am–12:30pm
📍 Online
👉 Register: noca.ie/news-events/...
This is part of our Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 programme of events:
👉 noca.ie/news-events/... #IPCCA2025 #CAAW25
🎉 Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 starts today! We're celebrating the power of audit to improve patient care.
Watch a welcome from Collette Tully (NOCA) & Mandy Daly (INHA), our charity partner for this week.
🎥 Video: vimeo.com/noca/caaw25
Programme: tinyurl.com/2et69fse
#CAAW2025 #ClinicalAudit
Missed today’s NOCA & DICA webinar? Watch the conversation on the future of clinical audit, now available here: vimeo.com/noca/nocadic...
Topics: EHDS, innovations, AI, benchmarking, & more.
Speakers: Collette Tully, Dr Rob Tollenaar, Dr Philip Crowley
#CAAW25
☕ Conversations Over Coffee is this Friday at 1PM!
Join @louisebrent28.bsky.social (NOCA) & Karen Hertz from the Fragility Fracture Network as they discuss hip fracture care, audit, and shared learning in a relaxed lunchtime chat.
Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#CAAW25 #HipFractureCare
📢 Reminder - The Irish National ICU Audit National Report 2023 launches this Wednesday at 10am.
🖥️ Join the webinar to explore critical care insights from across Ireland.
🔗 Register now: www.noca.ie/news-events/... #ICUAuditIre #CriticalCare #ClinicalAudit
Minister for Older People and Housing, Kieran O'Donnell TD, has announced the commencement of the Irish Dementia Registry-which aims to enhance care for individuals living with dementia in Ireland. NOCA has been commissioned to develop the Registry.
🔗 www.noca.ie/audits/irish... #UnderstandTogether
3rd June - We kickstart Clinical Audit Awareness Week with 'NOCA and DICA in Conversation – Exploring the Future of Clinical Audit'. This engaging discussion will see 2 of Europe’s leading national clinical audit organisations share experiences, challenges, and innovations. #CAAW25 shorturl.at/USzRq
📢 Just published: Irish National ICU Audit Annual Report 2023
Key findings:
🔹 14,363 patients for 15,152 admissions from 29 ICUs/HDUs across 25 hospitals
🔹 96% national bed occupancy (recommended: 85%)
🔹 87% admitted to ICU within 4 hours of decision to admit
🔗 noca.ie/documents/ir...
#ICUAuditIre
ICU Patient Story - Olga Barry
In March 2023, Olga spent 10 weeks in ICUs across 3 hospitals with pneumonia, sepsis & a heart issue. She underwent a tracheostomy & open-heart surgery. Her story reflects the compassion & resilience of ICU staff.
Read more a.storyblok.com/f/265949/x/3... #ICUAuditIre
Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025 | 2–6 June
Join NOCA for a full week of engaging events highlighting how clinical audit drives better care. From international speakers to a national report launch, there’s something for everyone. 🔗Further details & registration: shorturl.at/GRrul #CAAW25
We’re thrilled to announce that @hqip.bsky.social, in collaboration with N-QI-CAN, will be holding the next Clinical Audit Awareness Week (#CAAW25) from 2-6 June 2025.
Want to find out more about #CAAW25 and the Clinical Audit Awareness Week 2025?
Click here: www.hqip.org.uk/clinical-aud...
Exciting News! The new system for the Irish National Orthopaedic Register is now live on the NOCA Audit Platform (NAP)! This enhanced system will improve data collection, accuracy, and reporting for orthopaedic care across Ireland.
Thank you to everyone involved in making this possible. #INOR
Pamela Hickey, NOCA Audit Manager was happy to be invited to present at the Surgical Infection Society Europe Annual Congress today. She gave an overview on surgical site infection surveillance data from the Irish Hip Fracture Database. We are delighted to collaborate with HSE AMRIC. #sise2025
Congratulations to @louisebrent28.bsky.social, Prof Conor Deasy, Pamela Hickey, Dr Rachael Doyle & @olgabr.bsky.social, whose poster "Older adults are now the face of Major Trauma in Ireland" has won the Eva Huggins Award for Best Nurses &AHP Poster at BGS Spring Conference 2025 @gerisoc.bsky.social
Hate to be missing such a wonderful meeting but sending all my best from 🇪🇸. Congrats to the FLS team! Onwards and upwards. Let's prevent as many falls and fractures together. @noca-irl.bsky.social @rcsi.bsky.social
Delighted to be at the @gerisoc.bsky.social conference in Belfast to share posters from the Major Trauma Audit, Irish Hip Fracture Database & chair a session with Mr Andy Gray for the Fragility Fracture Network UK session focused on trauma care in older adults. @noca-irl.bsky.social
Thank you for the kind words @louisebrent28.bsky.social. It’s been a privilege working with the Irish Hip Fracture database team and the local teams around the country. Their drive to move mountains to improve national care is inspiring and contagious!
Well done to Ben O’Grady @ucddublin.bsky.social for all his work on this wonderful resource that will help healthcare professionals in 🇮🇪 place their focus on longer term hip fracture recovery. The module will go live in coming days and comes with a formal CPD cert….watch this space!
Pamela Hickey and Daragh Browne represented NOCA today at the Galway Orthopaedic Nurses Conference. They were delighted to present 3 posters and catch up with Audit Coordinator colleagues from hospitals across the country. @louisebrent28.bsky.social
This amazing resource is the culmination of many years work led by @marywalsh14.bsky.social
Using her skills as a researcher, passion for patients with fragility fractures and vision for how we can harness clinical audit data to produce peer reviewed publications, resources for staff and patients
Louise Brent, Audit Management Lead, is attending the All Ireland Conference on Integrated Care today. We have two posters on display from the Irish Hip Fracture Database- Louise’s poster is no.14 & Pamela’s is no.18. Pop by and say hello at #AICIC25 @louisebrent28.bsky.social @ificinfo.bsky.social
Anne O’Shea-Clarke from Sage Advocacy & Mary Harkin from Age & Opportunity share the patient, carer & public perspective of HipFORESST. Their input was key to creating a powerful video resource to support people recovering from hip fracture. #HipFORGE #IHFD #ClinicalAudit @marywalsh14.bsky.social
I’m very proud of this output from our HRB award which concludes this month @ucddublin.bsky.social. It aims to provide reassurance and information to empower people experiencing hip fracture in Ireland on their recovery journey #HipFORGE.
