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.
Together for Short Lives
Together for Short Lives report, published in June, ‘Vital care, fragile funding: why children’s hospices can’t keep filling the gap‘ shines a light on the growing financial pressures that children’s hospices are under, and provides a series of targeted recommendations for governments across the UK.
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
Respite services for children with life-limiting conditions and their families in Ireland; a national needs assessment
The intention of this report is to provide a national overview of the current provision of and future need for respite care for children with life-limiting conditions.
Palliative care for children with life limiting conditions in Ireland – A National Policy
The Department for Health’s national palliative care policy for children aims to provide a foundation upon which service development can take place.
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
Adult Palliative Care Services Model of Care for Ireland
The aim of the HSE National Clinical Care Programme for Palliative’s Care Palliative Care Model of Care is that:
“Every person with a life-limiting condition can easily access a level of palliative care appropriate to their needs regardless of care setting or diagnosis in order to optimise quality of life.