Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Role and Functions: All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care

10:30 am

Ms Karen Charnley:

If it is okay, I will come to the Deputy with further information about this. The institute supports having social care providers who deliver home care or who use a palliative care approach in hospitals in order that all the care is not necessarily delivered by specialist hospice-based services. We look to support them in the development of their practice and via educating the professionals who do the visits and to use that approach to meet people's physical, social, emotional and spiritual needs as part of the care.

We would seek to support them in the development of their practice and, via education of the professionals who are doing the visiting, in using that approach in terms of supporting people's physical, social, emotional and spiritual needs as part of the care.