Implementing Outcomes Measurement in an Assistive Technology Service Delivery System

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to outline the Assistive Technology (AT) national service delivery system in Ireland. Assessing both the structural supports and barriers that are present within the Irish system. National governments throughout Europe are looking to streamline their services and to monitor and measure the quality of those services. In Ireland these initiatives have come at a time where the health service is in urgent need of reorganisation and restructuring. Massive cuts and lack of government funding over the past three decades has dangerously depleted the whole health care system. At the same time the health services are looking at how to measure the quality of service The outcomes of two national projects carried out by the Central Remedial Clinic’s (CRC) Client technical Services Dept. (CTS) are outlined to show one possible way that the future may be constructed through positive action within a partnership philosophy.