Publications and Downloads

IAPC Annual Education & Research Seminar 2012

• IAPC Education & Research Seminar 2012 - Programme
• Concept of Caring - Family caregiver's perspective on end of life care in advanced COPD - Ms Bettina Korn
• Why do Palliative Medicine Patients Attend the Emergency Department? Avoidable or Unavoidable? - Dr Elaine Wallace
• Exploring relationships at end of life: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of palliative care pateints' experiences - Dr Grainne McGoran
• Patients Dying in the Community - What Role for Primary Care - Dr Paul Gregan
• Self-Reported Symptom Burden in Prevalent Haemodialysis Patients in South West Ireland - Dr Aoife Lowney
• Evaluating the first year of New Medicines Information Service for Palliative Care - Focus on unlicensed use of medicines - Ms Eimear O'Dwyer
• Bereaved Men's Expereiences of Support Following the Death of their Partner - Ms Deborah O'Neill Fearon
• An Audit of Take Over by a Hospital-Based Palliative Care Team - Dr Barry Lunny
• Bags and Baggage: Travelling with children with Complex Needs - Dr Honor Nicholl
• Exploring physiotherapists' experiences in delivering rehabilitation to patients requiring palliative and end of life care in the community setting - Ms Kathryn Carson

IAPC Annual Conference 2011

• IAPC Annual Conference 2011 Full Programme
• Palliative Care Frameworks in Neurology: an overview of international guidelines & initiatives - Dr Peter Bede, Research Fellow in Neurology, Trinity College Dublin
• Parkinson's Disease: An Overview: Diagnosis to Palliative Care - Mr Brian Magennis, Clinical Nurse Specialist - Parkinson's & Movement Disorder, Mater University Hospital, Dublin
• A Narrative Analysis of Dying with Motor Neurone Disease - Dr Sinead O'Toole, Nurse Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems, University College Dublin
• An overview of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and Cortico Basal Degeneration (CBD): Symptoms, Care and Management - Ms Kat Haines, Nurse Specialist, The Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Association
• Dementia and Palliative Care - Dr Mary Cosgrave, Consultant Psychiatrist in the Psychiatry of Old Age
• Palliative Care in Paediatric Neurodisability - Dr Joanne Balfe, Consultant Paediatrician, The Children's Sunshine Home
• Palliative Care & Neurological Disease: Ethics Reflections - Prof David Smith, Associate Professor of Healthcare Ethics, RCSI
• Specialist Palliative Care in Neurology -is everything alright? - Dr Tony O'Brien, Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine, St Patrick's Hospital/Marymount Hospice, Co. Cork

HSE Palliative Care Programme

• Eligibility Criteria for Access to Specialist Palliative Care
• Palliative Care Clinical Programme - Access Consultation Feedback

Downloads

• The Quality of Death Report Ranking End Of Life Care Across the World.
• Getting to the heart of the Matter
• Constipation Information Leaflet I
• Constipation Information Leaflet II

IAPC Position papers

• IAPC Position Paper Artificial Hydration
• IAPC Discussion Paper Voluntary Euthanasia
• IAPC Discussion Paper Palliative Sedation

IAPC Annual Education and Research Seminar 2011

• Ms Sue Moran - Evaluation of the Patient Own Drug Scheme on a Palliative Care Unit
• Dr Val O'Reilly - Antibiotic therapy within a Specialist Palliative Care in-patient unit - too much
• Ms Una Molloy - The Craft of End of Life Care in Long-term Care Units
• Dr Fiona Kiely - End of Life care. What information do we need?
• Ms Sarah Prendergast & Ms Fiona Cahill - Evaluation of an interdiscplinary led 'Breathe Easy' Programme in Palliative Care
• Ms Patricia Grimes & Mr Paul Keenan - Healthcare workers management of bereavement in people with severe intellectual disability
• Dr Margaret Clifford - How Can We Improve Practice in Relation to Formal Family Meetings – A Survey of Staff in 2 Specialist Palliative Care Inpatient Units
• Dr Aoife Gleeson - MRSA and Palliative Care - The Straw that broke the Camel's Back
• Dr Breffni Hannon- Trisomy 18-Referrals to a Children’s Palliative Care Service

IAPC Annual Conference 2010

• Understanding Advance Care Planning in the Irish Context Dr Joan Cunningham,Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Blackrock Hospice
• Advance Care Planning and Motor Neurone Disease Ms. Bernie Corr, Clinical Nurse Specialist Motor Neurone Disease Beaumont Hospital Dublin 9.
• Report on Bioethics Advance Care Directives Mr Raymond Byrne, Director of Research Law Reform Commission
• Advance Care Planning vs General Care planning: the UK Reality. Dr Mary Miller, Clinical Director, Sobell House Hospice, Oxford, UK/
• Planning for the Future in a Dementia Specific Service Ms Cecelia Hayden, Clinical Nurse Specialist St. Vincent's Hospital Athy, Co. Kildare. Ms Muriel Parke, Clinical Nurse Specialist St. Brigid's Hospice The Curragh, Co. Kildare.
• Advance Care Planning Community Experiences in Northern Ireland Dr Graeme Crawford, Macmillan GP Facilitator North Down and Ards, Co. Down.