HPAL: Expert palliative care information with links to local services to support clinicians and healthcare workers and the public
HPAL is a co-designed, adaptable digital resource providing quick, reliable palliative and end-of-life care information for clinicians, patients and carers, alongside locally tailored service information to support care in the community.
Guidance for Bereavement Support provided bySpecialist Palliative Care Social Workers
Hospice & Palliative Care Social Workers Group guidance on bereavement support needs of patients and their families as part of a continuum of care from illness into bereavement. The document reviews the current understandings of the grief and loss experience in the context of research, guidance and policy. This informs the evidence-based guidance for social workers in their support of patients and their families within specialist palliative care services.
CCLG: The Children & Young People’s Cancer Association
The CCLG website contains information for medical, healthcare and other professionals working with or supporting a child with cancer
Compassionate Communities Position Paper
Position Paper developed by Queen’s University Belfast.
The paper puts forward nine recommendations. It emphasises the need for a mandate for fostering a compassionate communities approach at local government level. This would recognise that caregiving, dying, death and grieving should not be the role responsibility of health and social care.
Compassion and Pride for the LGBTQIA+ Community in Death
Ember is an end-of-life guide that was developed and driven by a group of volunteers from the LGBTQIA+ community and allies. It aims to inform and empower LGBTQIA+ people to start thinking about Advance or Future Care Planning for end of life and support Health and Social Care professionals caring for the community at end of life.
Palliative Care Stories
AIIHPC produced videos of peoples experiences of palliative care
Mentoring Guide: for health and social care professionals who provide palliative care in a variety of care settings
AIIHPC produced a Mentoring Guide to inform the future development of mentoring programmes within palliative care
The Palliative Care Needs Assessment (PCNA) and the new PCNA eLearning Programme Webinar 2024
The webinar was targeted at all health and social care professionals and provided a detailed overview of the new Palliative Care Needs Assessment (PCNA) eLearning programme
Compassionate Communities in Palliative and End of Life Care Conference and Position Paper
AIIHPC was awarded a grant from the Shared Island Civic Society Fund to fund the Compassionate Communities in Palliative and End of Life Care Conference which took place on the 9th of September in Newry.
Webinar on the New National Adult Palliative Care Policy in the Republic of Ireland
This AIIHPC webinar on the 7 November 2024 provided an overview of the new National Adult Palliative Care Policy, its recommendations, planned actions and the next steps to support policy implementation.