Read the Summary Irish Hospice Foundation Pre-Budget Submission 2024.
Budget 2024 – Priorities and Actions
Our Pre-Budget Submission 2024:
- Highlights the need for structural investment and commitment across government departments to achieve the best end-of-life and bereavement care for all.
- Identifies specific areas that require funding of €875,000 to support the development of IHF’s work.
Priority 1: Resource a national approach to palliative, end-of-life and bereavement care
Structural investment required:
1. Implement and resource the forthcoming National Adult Palliative Care Policy
Priority 2: Build on increased capacity for quality end-of-life care in the community
Specific investment required for IHF – €300,000:
2. Implement the recommendations from IHF’s “Dying Well at Home” Report – €300,000
Priority 3: Invest in and resource community bereavement supports
Structural investment required:
3. Commitment to operationalising a public health model approach to bereavement
4. Multiannual funding and financial support for the regulatory compliance requirements of bereavement support organisations
5. Improve the provision of counselling supports
Specific investment required for IHF – €475,000:
6. Implement the recommendations from IHF’s “Real Financial Impact of Bereavement” Report – €325,000
7. Deliver enhanced bereavement and grief training for mental health practitioners – €75,000
8. Co-funded support from HSE to deliver IHF’s Bereavement Support Line – €75,000
Priority 4: Support every person to plan for their end of life
Specific investment required for IHF – €100,000
9. Funding for our Think Ahead programme to encourage and enable Irish people to think, talk and plan ahead for their end of life – €100,000
Read the complete Pre-Budget Submission 2024.
