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
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
