HIQA Newsletter Issue 70: Nursing Home Regulation Review and Annual Report 2025 (hiqa.ie)

• Independent review by Forvis Mazars found HIQA's nursing home inspection processes effective; recommends better assessment of culture and accountability for parent companies.
• HIQA 2025 Annual Report details planned expansion: individual event investigations, licensing of facilities, and post-mortem regulation.
• Public consultations launched on residential disability services standards and COVID-19 vaccination (to inform 2027-28 programme).
• Health technology assessments: evidence for updated alcohol guidelines; shingles vaccine may lower dementia risk.
• HIQA progressing on EU Critical Entities Resilience Directive, NIS-2 Directive, and European Health Data Space implementation.

"HIQA's July 2026 newsletter covers an independent review of nursing home regulatory processes (by Forvis Mazars, requested by the Minister for Older People following concerns about Emeis Ireland homes), publication of the 2025 Annual Report detailing planned legal remit expansions, public consultations on residential disability standards and COVID-19 vaccination, health technology assessments on alcohol guidelines and shingles vaccine–dementia link, and progress on implementing the European Health Data Space and EU directives (Critical Entities Resilience, NIS-2)."