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Read our Autumn/Winter issue of Hospice Connection to find out about building plans for our new 24-bed single room in-patient unit in Raheny. Learn about the experiences of Shenda (RIP) and her family in St Francis Hospice. Find out more about four of our wonderful volunteers. Enter our Annual Car Draw for a chance to win!

St Francis Hospice Dublin held its first annual Clinical Audit Blitz during Palliative Care Week in September 2024.

Excellence is a core value in St Francis Hospice, and clinical audit is an important tool for quality improvement as we strive to ensure the highest standard of care for our patients and their families.

Colleagues gathered in our education centres in both St Francis Hospice Raheny and Blanchardstown to watch and hear a variety of interesting presentations about a diverse range of audits carried out in recent times.

Huge congratulations to all our colleagues who participated and especially to Sinead Coyle, Senior Physiotherapist, on her winning presentation based on her audit of physiotherapy documentation that led to significant improvements in practice.

Thank you to our adjudicator Cathy Doyle, board director and member of our Board Quality and Risk Sub-Committee, and to Sheila O’Leary, Quality, Risk, and Patient Safety Manager, who organised the event.

An education centre with PowerPoint presentation on screen. A number of people sit at round tables facing the screen with their backs to the camera. An education centre with presenter from a remote location on screen. There are chairs in the room with several healthcare professionals seated in them, their backs to the camera as they look at the screen.

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We are proud to be shortlisted in two categories (Employer Excellence Award and Excellence in Leadership Award) at this year’s Charity Excellence Awards hosted by the Charities Institute Ireland. The ceremony takes place on 3rd October.

We are also eligible for the People’s Choice Award – please click and vote for St Francis Hospice Dublin before 2nd October 2024! Thank you for your support.

Our volunteer gardener Marie Norton and staff member Barbara Kilbride collected plants that were donated from Mountjoy female prison, the Dochas Centre. Many thanks for the plants, they will truly enhance the beauty of our Raheny & Blanchardstown hospice gardens for the benefit of our patients and their loved ones.

Two women stand outside a brick building with a sign that says Dochas Centre. They each hold a flowering potted plant.   A large collection of potted flowering plants, including pink, purple and white blooms.

Please join us for our Sunflower of Life Reflection as we remember our loved ones who have died.