Friday 19th November 2021 Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) welcomes the announcement that a Special Oireachtas Committee will be established in early 2022 to examine the issue of assisted dying. The formation of the Special Committee was recommended earlier this year by the Oireachtas Justice Committee. In July the Justice Committee found that Dying with Dignity Bill […]
Dying, Death and Bereavement are Everyone’s Business.Irish Hospice Foundation calls for an investment of €2.4 million in Budget 2022 in Dying, Death and Bereavement. We must provide support for a nation that has been profoundly changed by COVID-19 […]
Older people have expressed the heightened challenges they faced during COVID-19 and called for a post-pandemic focus on regaining their positive role in society – according to a new hard-hitting review launched today. […]
Thursday 22 July 2021 Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) welcomes the Joint Committee on Justice recommendation that an Oireachtas Special Committee be established to undertake an examination of assisted dying. In our submission in January of this year to the Joint Committee on Justice on the Dying with Dignity Bill, we called for the absolute necessity of public debate on the issue of assisted dying. The […]
Renewed call for a national programme on palliative, end-of-life and bereavement care for nursing homes Following last night’s RTÉ Primetime Investigates programme, Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) is renewing its call for a national collaborative programme on palliative, end-of-life and bereavement care for the nursing home sector to be commenced. This has been an incredibly distressing […]
Today we made a submission to the General Register Office on improvements to how deaths are registered in Ireland and in particular the response of state services when people are grieving […]
IHF has highlighted that despite National Policy being in place since 2001, the Midlands remains the last area of Ireland without plans for a specialist inpatient unit for those requiring hospice care […]
Our letter to CMO calling on some lifting of restrictions at funerals to ease the burden and distress on families. All aspects of funerals are currently restricted to 10 people […]
It is imperative the Government address shortfalls on palliative care in advance of any national debate on assisted dying according to Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) who have published their submission made to the Justice Committee on the Dying With Dignity Bill 2020. […]
We, IHF, have made a submission to the Justice Committee on the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020 in which we recognise the diversity of opinion on the issue. We will continue to advocate for excellent hospice and palliative care for those facing end of life – as we have always done in the past – so as […]
