Standing Committee on Health Statistics
The Department of Health and Children (DoHC) and the Central Statistics Office (CSO) have close bilateral working relationships across a number of areas of statistics. The Central Statistics Office also consults with a range of health agencies in relation to specific data collections and information needs. The Department is itself both a major user of CSO statistics as well as a data provider. While co-operation between the two organisations and across the health sector is close, a Standing Committee on Health Statistics has been established to provide a more formal forum to discuss mutual areas of interest, to effect required improvements and to evaluate progress across the area of health statistics.
Terms of Reference
- Provide focus and give strategic direction to the improved collection, dissemination, analysis and use of health statistics;
- Monitor the implementation of the Data and Statistics Strategy in the context of the Department’s National Health Information Strategy and the strategic requirements of the two organisations;
- Identify and assess the statistical resources required;
- Provide a forum for the discussion of areas of mutual interest and concern in the area of health statistics; and
- Involve other organisations, as required, in the work of the Committee, and to establish subgroups to deal with specific issues and/or to progress specific areas.
Membership
- Joint Chair Mr. Tom Mooney, Department of Health and Children
- Joint Chair Mr. Gerry O’Hanlon, Central Statistics Office
- Dr. Hamish Sinclair, Health Research Board
- Dr Fenton Howell, Health Service Executive
- Mr Adrian Redmond, Central Statistics Office
- Dr. Elizabeth Keane, Health Information and Quality Authority
- Dr. Tony Holohan, Department of Health and Children
- Mr. Hugh Magee, Department of Health and Children
- Ms Emer Brady, Department of Health and Children
