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We have received numerous inquiries lately regarding management qualifications, especially about the required qualifications for the Person In Charge (PIC). In this blog post, we discuss what this means for your organisation and outline...

LHP Skillnet is proud to announce its continued collaboration with the Department of Health for the second year of this initiative, which was launched in 2024 to support private nursing homes in building nurse expertise...

White Paper: Advancing a Home Support Worker Career Pathway LHP Skillnet launched our first ever White Paper on “Advancing a Home Support Worker Career Pathway” on Tuesday 15th October in the RCSI, Faculty of Nursing...

LHP Skillnet are delighted to announce the launch of our new course: Infection Prevention and Control in Long-Term Residential Care Settings starting this September. Background LHP Skillnet commissioned the RCSI Faculty of Nursing and...

Directors of Nursing in the Long-Term Care Sector in Ireland Learning and Development Supports Required to Meet Challenges in Their Current Role LHP Skillnet are delighted to publish our recent report on the...

LHP Skillnet is proud to be teaming up with The Department of Health on a new initiative which will aim to support nursing homes in building nurse expertise in the field of gerontology, new details...

Green Paper: A Stakeholder Consultation on a Career Pathway for Ireland’s Home Support Workers This Green Paper emerges from conversations between LHP Skillnet and Home & Community Care Ireland (HCCI) following HCCI’s involvement in...

Exploring a career pathway for home support workers in Ireland: a systematic scoping review of the international evidence Article Publication in Frontiers in Health Services Our focus in LHP Skillnet is on areas of...

Leading Healthcare Providers Skillnet (LHP Skillnet) is a is a not-for-profit learning network co-funded by Skillnet Ireland and our member companies. We are the only Network dedicated exclusively to supporting the private healthcare sector....

Leading Healthcare Providers Skillnet - Postgraduate Certificate in Infection Prevention & Control (IPC) in UCC Associate Director with Glas Care Richard shared his experience of the IPC Programme which was developed to meet the...