Partner Organisations in INAD-2

The Second Irish National Audit of Dementia care in acute hospitals (INAD-2) is a partnership between the National Dementia Office and HealthCare Audit, Quality Assurance and Verification; both within the Health Service Executive (HSE). Funding for this audit is generously provided by the HSE Acute Operations. The INAD-2 Steering Committee is Co-Chaired by representatives from NCAGL Acute Operations and the National Dementia Office. 

INAD-2 Audit Management

For an overview of the Irish National Audit of Dementia (including more information on INAD-2), please click here

INAD-2 Audit Team

INAD-2 National Audit Coordinator

Dr Mairéad Bracken-Scally

HSE Healthcare Audit, Quality Assurance and Verification;

Ms. Anne Keane

Ms. Anne McDermott

INAD-2 Steering Committee

The INAD-2 Steering Committee provides governance, guidance and direction in order to attain the objectives of the project. The Steering Committee is Co-Chaired by Dr Suzanne Timmons, National Dementia Office, and Dr Vida Hamilton, HSE Acute Operations

National Dementia Office; Dr Suzanne Timmons, Co-Chair of Steering Committee and Clinical Lead of National Dementia Office 

HSE Acute Operations; Dr Vida Hamilton, Co-Chair of Steering Committee and NCAGL, Acute Operations

Healthcare Audit - Quality Assurance and Verification; Ms Anne Keane/Ms Anne McDermott, Auditors, Healthcare Audit, Quality Assurance and Verification and Ms Cora McCaughan, Assistant National Director, Healthcare Audit, Quality Assurance and Verification

INAD-2 Audit Team; Dr Mairéad Bracken-Scally, National Audit Coordinator for INAD-2

Dementia Environment Project, TrinityHaus; Prof Desmond O'Neill, Professor in Medical Gerontology, Trinity College Dublin

Irish Society of Physicians in Geriatric Medicine; Dr Paul Gallagher, Consultant Geriatrician and Senior Lecturer, University College Cork

National Clinical Care Programme for Older People; Dr Sean Kennelly, Co-Investigator, Dementia Inclusve Hospital Design Audit Tool and Consultant Geriatrician

Ms Emma O'Shea,  Former Project Manager of Northern Ireland Audit of Dementia

Nursing and Midwifery Directorate; Ms Leonie Finnegan/Ms Michelle Quinn, NMPDU Quality Care Metrics Project Officers

Office Nursing Midwifery Services Director; Ms Deirdre Lang, Director of Nursing/National Lead Older Persons Services, Clinical and Integrated Programmes

Irish Association of Consultants in Psychiatry of Old Age; Dr Sabina Fahy, Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist

Alzheimer Society of Ireland; Ms Catherine O'Keeffe, QPSD Manager 

Health Information and Quality Authority; Ms Geraldine Ryan, Regional Manager

Dementia Services Information and Development Centre; Mr. Matthew Gibb, Director, DSIDC

Dublin City University; Prof Kate Irving, Professor of Clinical Nursing

School of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCC; Prof. John Browne, Director of the National Health Services Research Institute in Ireland 

National Clinical Programme Neurology; Dr Siobhán Hutchinson, Consultant Neurologist, St James's Hospital

HSE Quality Improvement Team; Ms Nicola O'Grady, HSE Quality Imorovement Team

HSE Health and Social Care Professionals Office; Ms Joan Elliott, OT Manager, Naas General Hospital

Emergency Medicine Programme; Dr Rosa McNamara, Emergency Medicine Consultant

HBS Estates, HSE; Mr Derek Dockrell, Architectural Advisor

National Clinical Programme Neurology; Dr Seán O'Dowd/Mr Emmett Kelly, Consultant Neurologist/CNM Neurology, Tallaght University Hospital