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Published: 24 January 2025

Quality and Patient Safety Competency Navigator

Image of the Quality and Patient Safety Competency Navigator wheel. This shows the 6 competencies:  Safety, Risk and Incident Management Partnering with people Quality and patient safety culture Sustainability Communication, teaming and systems Quality Improvement and clinical audit
The Quality and Patient Safety Competency Navigator wheel

What is the QPS Competency Navigator?

The Quality and Patient Safety Competency Navigator is a self-assessment tool. It will help you identify and develop the key competencies needed to provide safe and quality care. It will also sign-post you to relevant educational resources and learning opportunities.

Access the QPS Competency Navigator (PDF, 162 Pages, 7.76 MB)

QPS Competency Navigator Promotional Video

Watch Dr Colm Henry, HSE Chief Clinical Officer encourage all staff to use the QPS Competency Navigator

Who can use the QPS Competency Navigator?

This resource is for everyone and can be useful for:

  • students to develop skills for safe patient care
  • staff to self-assess competence and identify learning needs
  • line managers to guide professional development conversations
  • healthcare educators to inform the design of learning programmes.
  • patients to learn how they can play a role in supporting quality and patient Safety.

How to use the QPS Competency Navigator?

The QPS Competency Navigator describes six topics related to quality and patient safety. You can explore these depending on your role. You can use the tool to identify specific knowledge and skills that you need to develop and discover ways to learn more about a topic.

QPS Prospectus of Education and Learning Programmes

You can use the Prospectus of QPS education and learning programmes with this resource. This will help you to find further information about relevant learning programmes. The 2025 prospectus will be available soon.

You can also download the QPS Competency Development Plan Template to support your development

QPS Competency Development Plan Template (Docx, 2 Pages, 27 KB )