Reports
Hard copies of Irish Hospice Foundation publications can be requested by contacting us on Tel. 01-6793188 or Email info@hospice-foundation.ie
You can also browse and download our publications and research articles on the Irish Hospice Foundation Collection on the LENUS Irish Health Repository
The Public Health Approach to Dying, Death and Bereavement. An Irish Hospice Foundation Discussion Paper.
Irish Hospice Foundation Have Your Say Series
- Paper 1: Have Your Say
- Paper 2: What we don’t talk about when we don’t talk about death
- Paper 3: Thinking Ahead
- Paper 4: Pain in the Have Your Say Survey
Enhancing adult bereavement care across Ireland: A study
Irish Hospice Foundation :Reflections on the National Summary of Patient Activity Data for Adult Specialist Palliative Care Services in the Republic of Ireland 2012-2015
HSE National Summary of Patient Activity Data for Adult Specialist Palliative Care Services in the Republic of Ireland, 2012-2015
Irish Hospice Foundation, Strategic Plan 2016 -2019
Strategic Plan 2016-2019 – Summary
Irish Hospice Foundation Bereavement Leaflets available HERE
Irish Hospice Foundation Perspectives Series
- Number 4: A Perspective on Advance Planning for end-of-life
- Number 3: Enabling more people to die at home: Making the case for quality indicators as drivers for change on place of care and place of death in Ireland
- Enabling people to die at home – Infographic
- Number 2: Access to specialist palliative care services and place of death in Ireland
- Number 1: The strategic importance of palliative care within the Irish health service; Perspectives on future service delivery
Reports 2017
- National Summary of Patient Activity Data for Adult Specialist Palliative Care Services in the Republic of Ireland, 2012-2015
- Our Impact 1986 -2016
Reports 2016
- Guidance document 7: Medication and dementia – palliative assessment and management
- Guidance document 6: Ethical decision making in end-of-life care and the person with dementia
- Guidance Document 5: Pain assessment and management
- Guidance Document 4: Management of hydration and nutrition
- Guidance Document 3: Loss and grief in dementia
- Guidance document 2: Advance care planning and advance healthcare directives with a person with dementia
- Supporting people with dementia to die at home (Brief report)
- Evaluation of the Children’s Palliative Care Programme commissioned by the IHF highlighting improvements in palliative care for children
Reports 2015
- Guidance document 1; Facilitating discussions on future and end-of-life care with a person with dementia
- The GP Out of Hours Palliative Care Handover Project report
- Hearing the voice of the bereaved relatives
Reports 2014
- Irish Attitudes to death, dying and bereavement 2004-2014
- Irish attitudes to death, dying and bereavement (infographic)
- The Palliative Care Needs of People with Advancing Neurological Disease in Ireland
- National Palliative Care Support Beds Review Subgroup. (2014). Report of the First National Palliative Care Support Bed Review. Dublin: Health
Service Executive
Reports 2013
- Planning for the future; initiating end-of-life discussions for people with dementia
- Respite services for children with life-limiting conditions and their families in Ireland; a national needs assessment
Reports 2012
- Building consensus for the future; report of the feasibility study on palliative care for people with dementia
- The Irish Childhood Bereavement Network; supporting those working with bereaved children and young people
- Breaking the silence in the workplace; a guide for employers on responding to suicide in the workplace
- Irish Hospice Foundation – Strategic plan 2012 -2015
Reports 2011
- Primary Palliative Care in Ireland; identifying improvements in primary care to support the care of those in their last year of life
- Respite Services for children with life limiting conditions and their families
Reports 2010
- Perspectives on end-of-life; report of the forum 2009
- Dying in hospital in Ireland; an assessment of the quality of care in the last week of life. Report 5, final synthesis report (Hospice Friendly Hospitals)
- Quality_Standards_for_End_of_Life_Care_in_Hospitals
Reports 2009
- Weafer, J ‘A qualitative study of public perceptions of end of life issues’
- Weafer, J; Mc Carthy, J & Loughrey, M ‘Exploring death and dying; the views of the Irish public’
Reports 2008
- Palliative care for all; Integrating palliative care into disease management frameworks
- Literature review of communication for the Irish Hospice Foundation’s Hospice Friendly Hospitals programme
- Palliative care for all; integrating palliative care into disease management frameworks; Key messages
Reports 2007
- Grief at work; developing a bereavement policy
- Staffing Levels and Bed Numbers in specialist palliative care in Ireland – update to the baseline study
- The future of palliative care education in Ireland; a discussion paper
Reports 2006
- A baseline study on the provision of hospice/specialist palliative care services in Ireland
- Exploring palliative care education in Ireland: A resource & discussion document
- The Irish Hospice Foundation; 1986 – 2006 the first twenty years
