Publications

Published: 31 December 2016

Scoping review of case management in the treatment of drug and alcohol misuse, 2003–2013

This is the final report of a scoping study commissioned by the HRB National Drugs Library. The objective of the study was to examine the peer-reviewed empirical literature on case management and substance use between 2003 and 2013, and to answer specific research questions based on the literature. These comprised questions...

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Published: 21 December 2016

Drugnet Ireland 59

Drugnet Ireland is the Health Research Board's quarterly drug and alcohol research and policy newsletter. It provides summaries and analysis of recent publications and policy developments and well as overviews of particular issues relating to the drug and alcohol situation Ireland. Experts from the EMCDDA...

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Published: 20 December 2016

Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals Census 2016. Main Findings

This report presents findings from the ninth national psychiatric census of patients in psychiatric units and hospitals, the latest in a series of censuses first carried out in 1963. The census is a count of all patients resident in psychiatric units and hospitals operating within the provisions of the Mental Health Act...

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Published: 13 December 2016

National Drug-Related Deaths Index 2004 to 2014 data

This update presents figures from the National Drug Related Deaths Index on deaths due to poisonings (overdose) by alcohol and/or other drugs, and deaths among drug users (non-poisoning), in the period 2004-2014.

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Published: 28 November 2016

Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee 2015

This report presents data on the specialised health and personal social service use and requirements of people with a physical, sensory and/or speech and/or language disability. This report is divided into three sections: 1. Summary of numbers registered. 2. Profile of new registrations and recent reviews (2011-2015). 3....

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Published: 08 November 2016

Interventions that promote increased breastfeeding rates and breastfeeding duration among women: An umbrella review

To facilitate the implementation of the HSE Breastfeeding Action Plan, the Department of Health requested the HRB to carry out a review of interventions which aim to increase initiation, exclusivity and duration of breastfeeding. The goal of this review was to identify evidence of effective interventions from good quality...

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Published: 28 September 2016

Annual report of the National Intellectual Disability Database Committee 2015

The 2015 report provides:

a profile of people with an intellectual disability registered on the database in 2015.
details of the specialised health and personal social services provided; and
an outline of the future need for those services.

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Published: 13 September 2016

Health workforce planning models, tools and processes in five countries

This evidence review examines examples from the health workforce planning frameworks of other countries to highlight the systems, tools, and models used to implement health workforce planning policy and strategies. The aim is to understand the functional requirements of a successful workforce planning approach. Five...

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Published: 31 August 2016

Drugnet Ireland 58

Drugnet Ireland is the Health Research Board's quarterly drug and alcohol research and policy newsletter. It provides summaries and analysis of recent publications and policy developments and well as overviews of particular issues relating to the drug and alcohol situation Ireland.

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Published: 20 July 2016

Activities of Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals 2015

This report presents data on all admissions to, discharges from, and deaths in, Irish psychiatric units and hospitals, as recorded on the National Psychiatric In-patient Reporting System (NPIRS) in 2015. Data is presented: -

Nationally
By CHO area
By county
By hospital...
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Published: 20 July 2016

National bulletin. Activities of Irish psychiatric units and hospitals 2015

A short national overview of the key statistics reported in the HRB report, Activities in Irish Psychiatric Hospitals and Units. This includes information on admissions, discharges and deaths. Data is presented: -

Nationally
By CHO area
By county
By hospital type

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Published: 27 June 2016

Health Research Board Annual Report 2015

Contents

Chairman and Chief Executive Overview
Snapshot of Outputs and Impact
Corporate Governance
Extract from the Financial Statements
Appendix A - List of HRB publications in 2015
Appendix B - HRB awards made in 2015 to Host...
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Published: 26 June 2016

Individualised budgeting for social care services for people with a disability: International approaches and evidence on financial sustainability

This evidence review addresses two key questions:
1. What models or approaches to individualised or personalised budgeting in response to needs assessment for social care services for people with a disability are used in other jurisdictions?
2. What is the evidence on the financial sustainability of different...

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Published: 23 June 2016

The barriers and facilitators to successful hospital mergers

The review presents a set of barriers to, and facilitators of, the successful implementation of hospital mergers. Our overall qualitative finding in answer to our main research question is that ‘the distance between senior management and hospital staff is a greater threat to implementing a hospital merger than the...

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Published: 21 June 2016

Alcohol in Ireland: consumption, harm, cost and policy response

In 2009, the Government established a steering group to formulate an alcohol policy. The steering group published their recommendations in 2012 and, following on from this, the government approved an extensive package of evidence based measures in 2013 to deal with alcohol use. These were incorporated into the Public Health...

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Published: 31 May 2016

Drugnet Ireland 57

Drugnet Ireland is the Health Research Board's quarterly drug and alcohol research and policy newsletter. It provides summaries and analysis of recent publications and policy developments and well as overviews of particular issues relating to the drug and alcohol situation Ireland.

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Published: 23 May 2016

Proposals for an enabling data environment for health and related research in Ireland

Ireland has considerable data resources in a number of fields which could be harnessed to advance medical treatments, enhance health service delivery and inform policy and planning across government and civic society. These include:

Routinely collected health services data (e.g. see Catalogue of National Health...
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Published: 22 April 2016

Minor ailments schemes: an overview of experience up to 2015

The HRB has completed a review on the nature of Minor Ailment Schemes (MAS) delivery by pharmacists for the Department of Health (DOH). The ultimate aim of this review was to describe how MASs operated in other jurisdictions, including how the schemes are structured, regulated and resourced. The DoH also wished to identify...

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