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National Radiology Quality Improvement Programme

The National Radiology Quality Improvement (NRQI) Programme aims to give patients greater confidence in the radiology diagnosis. The central aim of the NRQI programme is to ensure enhanced patient care and patient safety with timely, accurate and complete radiology diagnoses and reports.

 

National Specialty Quality Improvement Annual Conference 2025

26 November 2025 | 10:30am | Hybrid event

The National Specialty Quality Improvement (NSQI) programmes are delighted to announce this year’s annual conference which will take place on Wednesday 26 of November. As in previous years, this is an in-person and online event.

At this year's NSQI Annual Conference, hear from speakers on a range of topics, including the achievements of the  NSQI Programmes, local and national clinical audits, QI in healthcare, and Change Management. We will also host presentations on the HSE Health Regions, National Clinical Audit Strategy 2025-2030, and Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) insights. 

Register your place Free to attend
 

Programme Overview

The programme is led by the Faculty of Radiologists and Radiation Oncologists, RCSI, it is sponsored by the HSE National Quality and Patient Safety Directorate, and managed by RCPI.

Launched in 2010, the NRQI programme aims to:

  • Ensure a high quality, consistent and accurate radiology service nationally, providing the optimum patient experience with consistently high standards of quality care
  • Increase public confidence in diagnostic reporting by providing evidence-based assurance of the quality of its diagnostic service
  • Continue to develop a standardised national quality improvement system for radiology
  • Enable individual departments to review their performance against national targets and drive decision making through the upload and analysis of real-time data using a national data repository
  • Identify and share best practice between participating radiology departments
  • Provide a safe space for learning and continuous improvement where QI activities are performed routinely by all
  • Recognise and encourage opportunities for quality improvement locally
  • Improve communication between participating institutions
  • Actively promote a culture of quality improvement by engaging key hospital stakeholders
  • Improve patient care by minimising diagnostic errors in radiology
  • Develop a standardised national quality improvement system for radiology
  • Identify good practice and areas requiring improvement and share findings with participating radiology departments
  • Improve communication between participating institutions
 

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Contact Us

Lanchana Dinesh
Programme Manager, National Radiology Quality Improvement Programme
Email: lanchanadinesh@rcpi.ie

Joanna Wolak
Interim Manager, National Specialty Quality Improvement Programmes
Email: joannawolak@rcpi.ie

 

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