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Home & Community Care Ireland Winter Plan 2023

  As we enter the perennial winter hospital overcrowding crisis, exacerbated this year by health funding challenges, home care continues to be marginalised as a tool in combatting Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC). There has also…
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HCCI Home Care Data Series Volume 2: Home Support Delivery

This issue of the HCCI Home Care Data Series examines home support delivery.  Using HSE data from a PQ asked by Colm Burke TD, we outline the growth in home support hours at a national and local level since 2018, including a breakdown of…
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HCCI Home Care Data Series - The Waiting List Issue

Introducing the HCCI Home Care Data Series As the representative body for home care providers, Home & Community Care Ireland (HCCI) is launching a new series of quarterly reports to make data from the home care sector more accessible…
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Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers fails to address recruitment crisis in the short term

Dublin, 15th October 2022: Home and Community Care Ireland (HCCI), the organisation that represents private home care providers has said that the Report of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers, published by Minister Butler today,…
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Budget 2023 fails to address the urgent need for home care worker recruitment and retention initiatives

HCCI: Budget 2023 fails to address the urgent need for home care worker recruitment and retention initiatives   Dublin, 28 September 2022: Home and Community Care Ireland (HCCI), the organisation representing private home care providers,…
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A Critical Year for Home Care: HCCI Pre-Budget Submission 2023

Delays to reform of the home care sector are causing lengthy home support waiting lists and a severe recruitment crisis.  Home and Community Care Ireland's (HCCI) Pre-Budget Submission 2023 urges the Government to take action on the Statutory…
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HCCI Concerned that Reform of the Home Care Sector is too Slow

16 June 2022, Dublin: Home and Community Care Ireland (HCCI), the organisation representing private home care providers, is concerned that reform of the home care sector is progressing far too slowly. HCCI stressed that sector reform needs…
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The Waiting List Lottery: Home Support Across Ireland

Where you live matters when you want home care. Waiting lists for home support have been a long running problem but it is not the same across the country. The Waiting List Lottery: Home Support Across Ireland analyses data on waiting…