Health Service Agencies
Information
There are a number of agencies and bodies that have a role in delivering health services. Some are involved in delivering services while others are regulatory and/or advisory.
Most of these agencies have been established on a statutory basis (in other words, they have been established by law).
An Bord Altranais (The Nursing Board)
The Nursing Board regulates the nursing profession. It maintains a register of qualified nurses and organises the education and training of nurses.
The Adoption Authority of Ireland
The Adoption Authority is responsible for making adoption orders. Voluntary adoption societies must be registered with the Board.
Bord na Radharcmhastóirí (The Opticians Board)
The Opticians Board is the regulatory body for opticians. The board's main functions include the training and registration of ophthalmic and dispensing opticians and regulating the practice of optics.
Bord na Radharcmhastóirí (The Opticians Board)
18 Fitzwilliam Square
Dublin 2.
Tel: (01) 676 7416
Fax: (01) 662 1051
National Cancer Screening Service
The National Cancer Screening Service encompasses BreastCheck - The National Breast Screening Programme and CervicalCheck - The National Cervical Screening Programme.
King's Inns House
200 Parnell Street
Dublin 1
Tel: (01) 865 9300
Fax: (01) 865 9333
Email: info@cancerscreening.ie
Comhairle na Nimheanna (Poisons Council)
The Poisons Council advises the Minister for Health on the control of poisons.
National Hospitals Office
The National Hospitals Office (formerly known as Comhairle na nOispideal) is the statutory body responsible for regulating the number and type of consultant and senior registrar appointments in public hospitals, specifying the necessary qualifications for these posts, advising the Minister for Health on the organisation and operation of hospital services and publishing reports on such services.
Crisis Pregnancy Agency
The Crisis Pregnancy Agency is responsible for preparing a strategy to address the problem of crisis pregnancy in Ireland.
Dental Council
This is the regulatory body for the dental profession. Its functions include maintaining a register of dentists and dental specialists, ensuring that the standards of dental training are maintained and inquiring into the fitness of a dentist to practice on specific grounds.
Dental Council
57 Merrion Square
Dublin 2.
Tel: (01) 676 2069
Fax: (01) 676 2076
Aims are the prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and aftercare programmes for out-patients and in-patients in order to minimise the harmful effects of drug addiction and prevent the spread of HIV and other infectious diseases.
Drug Treatment Centre Board
Trinity Court
30-31 Pearse Street
Dublin 2.
Tel: (01) 6488 600
Fax: (01) 6488 700
Food Safety Authority of Ireland
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland co-ordinates the different food safety control activities and provides advice on issues relating to safety, nutrition, food law and other matters regarding the processing and sale of food.
Safefood - the Food Safety Promotion Board
Safefood is a North/South institution that promotes food safety awareness.
Primary Care Re-imbursement Service (formerly known as the GMS Payments Board)
The Primary Care Re-imbursement Service (PCRS) administers payments to doctors, pharmacists and dentists under the Primary Care Re-imbursement scheme.
The Health Service Executive is a statutory body, which assumed full operational responsibility for running the Ireland's health and personal social services in 2005.
The Health Research Board promotes health research.
Health Services Executive (HSE) Employers Employers Representative Division
The HSE Employers Representative Division is the representative body for health service employers. It deals with industrial relations issues that arise.
Hospital Bodies Administrative Bureau
The Hospital Bodies Administrative Bureau provides administrative, analytical, clerical and ancillary services and other facilities for Comhairle na nOspidéal.
Hospital Bodies Administrative Bureau
Comhairle na nOspidéal
Corrigan House
Fenian Street
Dublin 2.
Tel: (01) 676 3474
Fax: (01) 676 1432
Hospitals Trust Board
The Hospitals Trust Board administers the Hospitals Trust Fund.
Hospitals Trust Board
Bank of Ireland
Head Office
Lower Baggot Street
Dublin 2.
Tel: (01) 604 3629
Fax: (01) 661 5992
Institute of Public Health in Ireland
The Institute of Public Health in Ireland has been set up to promote North/South co-operation for health.
Irish Blood Transfusion Service
The Irish Blood Transfusion Service organises and administers the national blood transfusion service, including the processing and supply of blood and blood products to hospitals. It also operates the National Haemovigilance Office, the Irish Unrelated Bone Marrow Registry and the National Tissue Bank.
The Irish Medicines Board is the authority responsible for the licensing of human and veterinary medicines and the approval of clinical trials. It also acts as an advisory body to the Minister for Health in relation to safety, control and regulation of medicines generally.
The Mental Health Commission was established in March 2002. The Commission's main purpose is to promote, encourage and foster the establishment and maintenance of high standards and good practices in the delivery of mental health services and to take all reasonable steps to protect the interests of people who are detained in approved psychiatric centres.
The Medical Council is the statutory body that regulates the medical profession. Its functions include administering the General Register of Medical Practitioners, ensuring that the standards of medical training are maintained and inquiring into the fitness of a doctor to practise on specific grounds.
National Cancer Registry Board
The National Cancer Registry Board collects and analyses data and reports on cancer incidence and mortality in Ireland.
National Cancer Registry Board
Elm Court
Boreenmanna Road
Cork
Tel: (021) 431 8014
Fax: (021) 431 8016
The Children Acts Advisory Board is an independent statutory board, advising the Ministers for Health and Justice and Equality. The key function of the Board is to advise the Ministers on policy relating to the co-ordinated delivery of services under the Child Care Act, 1991 (care, protection and welfare) and the Children Act, 2001 (detention).
Children Acts Advisory Board
Phoenix House, Block 2,
28 Conyngham Road,
Dublin 8
Tel: +353 (0)1 672 4100
Fax: +353 (0)1 677 4892
Email: mailto:info@caab.ie
National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery
This is the body responsible for the continuing education and professional development of nurses and midwives.
Health Promotion Surveillance Centre (previously known as the National Disease Surveillance Centre)
The Health Promotion Surveillance Centre is the specialist centre for the surveillance of communicable diseases.
National Social Work Qualifications Board
This is the body that assesses the suitability of social work education and training and advises the Minister for Health on standards that should apply.
National Treatment Purchase Fund
The National Treatment Purchase Fund was appointed in 2002. Its function is to buy treatment for public patients from private facilities in Ireland and abroad if public treatment in Ireland cannot be arranged within a reasonable time. A special fund has been earmarked for this purpose. The Team is being asked to concentrate initially on adults who have been on waiting lists for a year and children who have been waiting for 6 months.
The Office of Tobacco Control is a statutory body responsible for the control and regulation of tobacco products in Ireland.
Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland
This is the professional body for the pharmaceutical profession. Its main functions relate to the education, examination and registration of pharmaceutical chemists.
Pre-hospital Emergency Care Council
This Council is responsible for the recognition of institutions for the education and training of emergency medical technicians.
This was established in 1999 as an independent body to inspect social services provided by health boards. To date the Social Services Inspectorate has focused on child care services. In May 2007, when it was established on a statutory basis as the Office of the Chief Inspector of Social Services within the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). It is expected to have its remit extended to residential services for older people and people with disabilities.
Special Residential Services Board
The Special Residential Services Board will be the statutory body dealing with children's detention centres and children for whom special care orders have been made when the Children's Act, 2001 comes fully into effect. The Board has been established on an interim basis.
Special Residential Services Board
Floor 11
Hawkins House
Dublin 2.
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