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Published: 27 December 2023
Independent programme of evaluation of the State’s investment in The Irish LongituDinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) - Main Report
This report utilises a mixed-methods approach comprising both quantitative and qualitative tools to assess the outputs, outcomes and impacts of the TILDA programme. The methods used to collect data involved desk research (including bibliometric analysis), individual and focus group qualitative interviews, an in-depth...
Published: 11 July 2023
Overview of people engaging with disability services in Ireland, 2022
Bulletin from the National Ability Supports System (NASS) on data provided by disability service providers for people engaging with services through the HSE disability budget in 2022.
Published: 20 December 2021
Outputs, outcomes, and emerging impacts: Results from HRB-funded awards that completed in 2018–19
This report presents a snapshot of the outputs, outcomes, and some emerging impacts arising from 170 Health Research Board (HRB) awards (with a combined value of €49.5 million) that completed in 2018 and 2019. Further outputs, outcomes, and impacts can be expected to occur in the years following the completion of these...
Published: 02 June 2021
NASS annual report 2020 - disability service use and need
This report provides:
- A profile of the 36,649 people with a disability reviewed on NASS in 2020;
- Details of the HSE disability-funded services currently availed of, and those required now or within the next five years.
Supplementary reports on service users with an intellectual...
Published: 29 September 2020
NASS bulletin 2019 – disability service use and need
This bulletin, along with the two supplementary bulletins, presents the inaugural findings of data from the National Ability Supports System (NASS). It provides a profile of the 22,434 people with a disability registered on the system in 2019 as well as details of the disability-funded services currently availed of...
Published: 17 December 2019
Outputs, outcomes and emerging impacts
Outputs, outcomes and emerging impacts: Results from HRB awards completed in 2016/2017
This report presents a snapshot of, and provides trend analysis over 10 years for, the outputs, outcomes and some emerging impacts from 187 HRB awards (combined value of €47.2 million) that completed in 2016 and...
Published: 28 June 2018
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database 2017
The 2017 database report presents:
- profiles of any physical, sensory, neurological, speech or language disability registered in 2017
- data on specialised health and personal social service use
- an outline of future requirements for services
Infographic, tables and CHO...
Published: 19 January 2018
Measure of Activity and Participation (MAP) - Issue 9
The experience of people with neurological conditions
This bulletin updates the information contained in Issue 3 and provides a profile of almost five thousand people 16 years and over with a neurological condition as their primary diagnosis.
Published: 21 June 2017
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee 2016
This report presents data on the specialised health and personal social service use and requirements of people with a physical, sensory, neurological, speech or language disability. This report is divided into four sections:
- Summary of numbers registered.
- Profile of new registrations and recent...
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....
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...
Published: 26 November 2015
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee 2014
This report presents data on the specialised health and social service use and requirements of people with a physical, sensory and/or speech or language disability. The information is based on records registered on the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database (NPSDD). The NPSDD is a voluntary database which is...
Published: 22 September 2014
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee 2013
New report on disability service provision and future requirements Figures released today by the Health Research Board in the Annual Report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database (NPSDD) Committee 2013 show that demand for services remains high. The analysis in the report is based on...
Published: 22 September 2014
Measure of Activity and Participation (MAP) - Issue 8
Personal assistance and support services
This bulletin focusses on the unmet needs of those who are recorded on the NPSDD as requiring personal assistance and support services. It also examines their levels of restriction in everyday living.
Published: 18 December 2013
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee 2012
The objective of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database (NPSDD) is to provide an overview of the specialised health and personal social service needs of people with a physical, sensory and/or speech and language disability. The report is based on monitoring current service provision and future service...
Published: 18 December 2013
Measure of Activity and Participation (MAP) - Issue 7
Origins and potential uses
This issue of the MAP bulletin describes how MAP originated, its purpose and implementation, its uses to date and an outline of how it could be expanded to other populations.
Published: 19 December 2012
Measure of Activity and Participation (MAP) - Issue 6
Activity, participation and assistive technology
This bulletin examines the types of assistive technology (AT) used and required by people with a physical and/or sensory disability in Ireland, and evaluates the relationships between AT use and levels of participation in areas of life activities,...
Published: 19 August 2012
Annual report of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database Committee 2011
The objective of the National Physical and Sensory Disability Database (NPSDD) is to provide an overview of the specialised health and personal social service needs of people with a physical, sensory and/or speech and language disability. The report is based on monitoring current service provision and future service...
Published: 07 June 2012
Review of All-Ireland Cochrane Training Fellowship Scheme
The Cochrane Training Fellowship (CTF) scheme is unique to Ireland (North and South) and was developed to build capacity on the island to conduct high quality systematic reviews. The CTF scheme has been co-funded by the HRB and the HSC R&D Division of Northern Ireland since 2002. In 2011, the HRB carried out a...
Published: 02 March 2012
Impact assessment of the All-Ireland Cooperative Oncology Research Group
The All-Ireland Cooperative Oncology Research Group (ICORG) was set up in 1996 to create more research opportunities for clinical trials in the field of oncology. Up until 2011, ICORG has received €36.5 million to build capacity for cancer clinical trials in Ireland from the Health Research Board (HRB)....
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