COVID-19 HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR PEOPLE TO THINK ABOUT THEIR FUTURE CARE {Tuesday 12 May 2020}: The Irish Hospice Foundation is urging people to examine their options for Advance Healthcare Planning, especially surrounding preferences for treatment. The concept of planning ahead for life and death is not a new one. Discussed around dinner tables, in solicitors’ […]
Thursday April 30, 2020 Data shows increase in non-Covid-19 deaths The Irish Hospice Foundation is today calling for an increased package of supports for family care-givers providing end-of-life care at home. The call coincides with the publication of new analysis from the Foundation which shows a week-to-week excess death rate of non-Covid-19 deaths in the […]
April 16, 2020: The Irish Hospice Foundation is today recommending that one family member is allowed be with every person who is dying in hospitals and care settings – even if PPE is required for a COVID-19 patient. The recommendation is being made after the Foundation sought clarity and guidance from the HSE. CEO […]
Wednesday, 8 January, 2020 The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, T.D. today announced that she was partnering with the Irish Hospice Foundation to carry out research into the cost of bereavement and funeral poverty in Ireland. The research will commence in the coming weeks supported by funding of €60,000 that Minister […]
Thursday 19 December 2019 The Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) said today the HSE Service Plan for 2020 is “swings and roundabouts” for palliative care in Ireland with some services rightly benefiting but the sector as a whole losing out. While warmly welcoming the additional €10 million in the Service Plan for the opening of 55 […]
Thursday 28 November 2019 The Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) is again calling on the Government to progress vital amendments to the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 (ADMA) and to then commence it as a matter of urgency. Commenting ahead of a seminar on the ADMA being hosted (today and tomorrow) by the Decision Support Service […]
8 November 2019 Revised analysis of CSO place of death statistics further underlines need for co-ordinated end-of-life care support in all care settings The Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) has today welcomed the publication of revised analysis of place of death by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) which sees the place of death updated and re-categorised, […]
We are on a mission to transform Ireland’s mortuaries, so that grieving families have peaceful areas to bid their final goodbyes. In Ireland, over 40% of all deaths occur in hospital and the majority of people are brought to the hospital mortuary. Through our Design & Dignity programme in partnership with the HSE, we are […]
The Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) is today welcoming the news the HSE is in the process of establishing a Children’s Palliative Care Advisory Group to replace the former National Advisory Committee on Children’s Palliative Care.The main purpose of the group will be to advise and assist the HSE in the development of children’s palliative […]
Statement August 8 2019 The Irish Hospice Foundation (IHF) has today warmly welcomed the addition of information to the HSE website about emergency medical cards for people with a terminal illness. The IHF has been campaigning since 2014 for the HSE to give prominence to and make accessible on its website and in other appropriate […]
