Helping healthcare professionals who help grieving families
The GSHP online learning library provides healthcare professionals with zero-cost foundational education on core concepts of grief, grief-sensitive communication with patients, supporters, and colleagues, and personal wellness in high-exposure environments.
Simulation – Safe learning for real practice Webinar 2026
This webinar showcased the development and impact of an innovative interprofessional simulation programme at Milford Care Centre, highlighting how simulation-based education can strengthen clinical practice, communication, teamwork and confidence in palliative care settings.
Advance Care Planning: For Now and For the Future
The Advance Care Planning Programme Team has engaged widely during the development of the Advance Care Planning policy document.
Palliative Care Week Reports
Annual Reports detailing the impact of AIIHPC’s annual Palliative Care Week campaign.
Think Ahead Planning Pack (IHF)
Irish Hospice Foundation’s Think Ahead Planning Packs guide provides a step-by-step through different options including the ‘My Persoanl Wishes & Care Plan; My Advance Healthcare Directive; and My Medical Summary Form. Think Ahead provides place to record preferences, heallthcare choices, and many more topics related to end of life and after death care choices, and many more topics related to your end of life and after death care.
Supportive & Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT™)
The SPICT is used to identify people at risk of deteriorating and dying with one or more advanced conditions for palliative care needs assessment and care planning.The SPICT website allows users free downloads of SPICT and guides to using it in clinical practice with collaborating partners across the UK and internationally- Europe, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada, S America and Africa.
Communicate Your Health
Understand Me, Speak to Me and Hear Me, are free mobile apps developed in association with the Communicate Your Health (Ireland) Partnership. All 3 apps are accessible resources to assist health care and palliative care professionals in caring for patients from diverse ethnic,religious and cultural groups and feature good practice guidelines/information for person-centred intercultural care and provide interpreter services.
HSE Guideline for the Care and Management of a Central Venous Access Device for a Child in the Community
HSE Guideline for the care and management of a Central Venous Access Device and link to e-learning module ‘Connecting a Syringe Driver to a Child’s Hickman™ Catheter’ has been developed to support the guideline
Rapid Discharge Guidance
The aim of the HSE National Clinical Care Programme for Palliative’s Care guidance document and supporting tools is to facilitate the rapid discharge of persons from hospital who wish to die at home.
Pharmacological Management of Cancer Pain in Adults Guideline
Pharmacological Management of Cancer Pain in Adults