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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: 07 July 2023
Activities of Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals 2022
The 2022 report provides data presented nationally as well as:
* CHO
* county
* hospital type
* individual psychiatric units/hospitals
Published: 29 June 2023
Revisiting the Profile of Patients with No Fixed Abode Admitted to Psychiatric Inpatient Units
There is a well-documented relationship between homelessness and mental illness. This has been demonstrated in both an international context and in an Irish context. This relationship is bidirectional and homelessness is both a contributing factor to and a result of mental illness. This perpetuates a vicious circle...
Published: 04 October 2022
Activities of Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals 2021
The 2021 report provides data presented nationally as well as:
* CHO
* county
* hospital type
* individual psychiatric units/hospitals
Published: 01 March 2022
Predictors of access to healthcare professionals for people with intellectual disability in Ireland
The Irish National Intellectual Disability Database is updated annually and in 2017 contained records for nearly 22,000 persons aged 15 years and over. Information was extracted on the contacts each person had with one of eight health professionals in the years 2007, 2012 and 2017. Over these years, there was an increase in...
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: 06 July 2021
Activities of Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals 2020
The 2020 report provides data presented nationally as well as:
* CHO
* county
* hospital type
* individual psychiatric units/hospitals
Published: 01 July 2021
People with intellectual disability in Ireland are still dying young
People with intellectual disability die younger than their non-disabled peers. In recent years, greater attention has been paid to closing the gap. However, evidence that this is being achieved is limited by the dearth of longitudinal, national data.
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: 13 May 2021
Family carers of people with intellectual disabilities in Ireland: Changes over 10 years
Data were obtained on nearly 20,000 Irish children and adults living in various family care arrangements in 2007, 2012, and 2017. Over 10 years, the percentage increase in adult persons living with family carers was three times higher than the rise in the general population, with people aged 50 years and over having the...
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: 16 July 2020
Activities of Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals 2019. Main findings.
The 2019 report provides data presented nationally as well as:
* CHO
* county
* hospital type
* individual psychiatric units/hospitals
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 November 2019
An evaluation of HRB investment in health research leaders
Since 2004, the HRB has invested €37.9 million to support the development of leaders in research in both the academic and clinical environments through the Research Leader Awards in Population Health and Health Services Research (RLA in PHHSR) and the Clinician Scientist Awards (CSA).
This evaluation was conducted by...
Published: 29 August 2019
Review of clinical research infrastructure in Ireland
This report presents the outcomes of a review of HRB’s investment in clinical research infrastructures in Ireland conducted in 2018. The aim of the review was to generate appropriate evidence on current strengths, synergies, gaps, duplications and needs in Ireland's clinical research infrastructures, either those funded...
Published: 04 July 2019
Activities of Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals 2018
The 2018 report provides data presented nationally as well as:
* CHO
* county
* hospital type
* individual psychiatric units/hospitals
Published: 01 June 2019
The prevalence of intellectual disability: A comparison of national census and register records
International prevalence rates for intellectual disability vary widely with estimates often based on samples. In Ireland people with an intellectual disability are identified in the national census. Moreover, a national register of people receiving or requiring intellectual disability services is maintained and updated...
Published: 15 January 2019
A Profile of Psychiatric In-Patient Admissions With No Fixed Abode (NFA) 2007-2016
This paper examines admissions for the last ten years for those recorded as of no fixed abode (NFA) on the National Psychiatric In-Patient Reporting System (NPIRS).
Published: 15 October 2018
Quality of life outcomes and costs associated with moving from congregated settings to community living arrangements for people with intellectual disability. An evidence review
The purpose of this review is to systematically evaluate the evidence on quality of life outcomes and costs associated with a move from a congregated setting to a community living arrangement for people with intellectual disability. The right to live independently in a place of one’s own choosing is a core value of the...
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