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Home & Community Care Ireland Winter Plan 2023

HCCI 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 been a lack of focus on preventing hospital admissions by failing to tackle persistent home care waiting lists. Current proposals to force patients into the first nursing home with a bed available represents a kneejerk reaction that is detrimental to the patient’s autonomy and contrary to the Government’s stated ‘home first’ policy. In response to these challenges, Home and Community Care Ireland (HCCI) has prepared a set of policies to support timely discharge back to the home and increase sectoral capacity during Winter 2023/24.

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HCCI Home Care Data Series Volume 2: Home Support Delivery

HCCI Home Care Data Series Vol 2

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 HSE and independent sector delivery.  We look at the performance of each Community Health Organisation (CHO) in meeting its home care delivery targets and provide the latest home care waiting list data across Ireland.