Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority

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health and social care regulator non‑departmental public body public authority in Northern Ireland

The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority is Northern Ireland’s independent health and social care regulator, responsible for inspecting and monitoring services to ensure they meet required standards of quality and safety.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority canonical	4
Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (Northern Ireland)	2

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	health and social care regulator ⓘ non‑departmental public body ⓘ public authority in Northern Ireland ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
function	advice to the Department of Health in Northern Ireland ⓘ enforcement of regulatory standards ⓘ inspection of registered services ⓘ investigation of serious concerns about services ⓘ monitoring of compliance with minimum care standards ⓘ promotion of improvement in health and social care services ⓘ publication of inspection reports ⓘ registration of certain health and social care providers ⓘ review of the quality of health and social care ⓘ
goal	ensure safety of people using health and social care services ⓘ improve quality of health and social care services in Northern Ireland ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Belfast ⓘ
independence	operates at arm’s length from the Department of Health (Northern Ireland) ⓘ
jurisdiction	Northern Ireland ⓘ
legalStatus	non‑departmental public body of the Department of Health (Northern Ireland) ⓘ
oversightOf	quality of care in regulated services in Northern Ireland ⓘ safety of care in regulated services in Northern Ireland ⓘ
parentAgency	Department of Health (Northern Ireland) ⓘ
regionServed	Northern Ireland ⓘ
role	ensures services meet required standards of quality and safety ⓘ independent health and social care regulator for Northern Ireland ⓘ inspects health and social care services ⓘ monitors health and social care services ⓘ protects service users and the public ⓘ regulates health and social care services ⓘ
sectorRegulated	children’s homes in Northern Ireland ⓘ domiciliary care agencies in Northern Ireland ⓘ health care services in Northern Ireland ⓘ independent health care providers in Northern Ireland ⓘ nursing homes in Northern Ireland ⓘ residential care homes in Northern Ireland ⓘ social care services in Northern Ireland ⓘ
shortName	RQIA ⓘ
usesInstrument	enforcement actions ⓘ improvement notices ⓘ inspections ⓘ public reporting of performance ⓘ registration conditions ⓘ
website	https://www.rqia.org.uk/ ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority
Description of subject: The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority is Northern Ireland’s independent health and social care regulator, responsible for inspecting and monitoring services to ensure they meet required standards of quality and safety.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Department of Health (Northern Ireland) → oversees → Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority ⓘ

Minister of Health (Northern Ireland) → responsibleFor → Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority ⓘ

this entity surface form: Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (Northern Ireland)

Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland → regulatedBy → Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority ⓘ

NHS policy → monitoredBy → Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority ⓘ

this entity surface form: Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (Northern Ireland)

RQIA → fullName → Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority ⓘ

Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland → hasComponent → Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority ⓘ