We’re delighted to be supporting Carers Week 2024 (June 10 – 16)! Carers Week, coordinated by Care Alliance Ireland (CAI), highlights and celebrates the incredible, challenging, and invaluable work that Ireland’s 516,000 family carers do every day. They may provide support to a person with a disability, chronic condition, mental health challenge and/or long-term illness […]
Primary Palliative Care Steering Committee Newsletter
Providing updates on palliative care within community settings […]
Barriers to a Good Death at Home Identified in New Report
Today, we are releasing the Dying Well at Home Report. This report examines the experience of dying at home in Ireland and shows that there are barriers and many challenges to experiencing a good death. (Read the report.) While it was noted that many people do die well at home, the report notes that systemic […]
Palliative Care Week 2023
Palliative Care Week takes place from September 10th – 16th. This year’s theme is Palliative Care: Living for Today, Planning for Tomorrow […]
Improving Hospital Mortuaries for Bereaved Families
In moments of reflection, we may contemplate how we use our time, reflecting on all the things we still need to do and the conversations we wished we had had. While some may ponder the thought of death, we seldom think about the place in which our relatives will say their last goodbyes. But this […]
Show your Support for the Patients Deserve Better Campaign
Our organisation has been part of a nationwide campaign throughout this year calling for a community neurorehabilitation team to be established in each of the 9 HSE CHO areas around the country. Community neurorehabilitation teams provide access to vital therapies including physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, neuropsychology etc. for people with a wide range of […]
17th Annual National Carers Week
We are delighted to be supporting Care Alliance Ireland (CAI) who coordinate National Carers Week which will be taking place from June 12th – 18th. The goal of National Carers Week is to highlight and celebrate the incredible, challenging, and invaluable work that carers do on a daily basis. Alongside Carers Week partners, Care Alliance Ireland […]
HFHQI Awards Open for Applications
Today we opened applications for the Hospice Friendly Hospitals Quality Improvement (HFHQI) Awards 2023. Each year, we recognise projects that will improve end-of-life care for patients, their families, staff and the hospital through these Quality Improvement Awards. The awards were first launched in 2019, as an initiative through our Hospice Friendly Hospitals programme. Over the past […]
Caru Nursing Home Support & Training Programme Launched Today
Caru – Supporting Care & Compassion at End of Life In Nursing Homes, a continuous learning programme developed by Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF), in partnership with All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care (AIIHPC), and the HSE was launched 30th November 2022. Caru is aimed at supporting and empowering staff in the delivery of palliative, […]
Palliative Care Week 2022
Palliative Care Week takes place from Sunday 11 to Saturday 17 September. This year’s theme is ‘Palliative Care: Living as well as possible’ […]