We are delighted to announce the winners of our Annual Car Draw!
1st Prize – Toyota Yaris Cross Luna Hybrid – J. McKenna
2nd Prize – €2,000 – B. O’Reilly
3rd Prize – €1,000 – B. O’Shaughnessy
4th Prize – €200 Swirl Voucher – D. McCoy
5th Prize – €200 Swirl Voucher – M. White
6th Prize – €200 Swirl Voucher – A. Taylor
7th Prize – €200 Swirl Voucher – P. Bell
8th Prize – €200 Swirl Voucher – A. McCardle
All winners have been notified.
Congratulations to our winners and thank you to all who entered!
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.
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.
We are delighted to announce that tickets are now on sale for the 17th Kaleidoscope International Palliative Care Conference, taking place on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th May 2025 in the Convention centre Dublin. For more information and to book your tickets please click here.
In addition to the conference we also have two workshops taking place. Please note these workshops are not part of the main conference programme. If you wish to attend the conference you will need to purchase a conference ticket.
Workshop 1 – Friday 16th May 2025
Transforming Suffering Through Courageous Compassion
Workshop 2 – Saturday 17th May 2025
Respectfully Handling Deep Moral Pluralism in Complex End-of-Life Choices
For further information and to book tickets please click here.
Alan Bradley, who is under the care of St Francis Hospice Dublin, describes his experience of hospice care, including visits from and phone consultations with the Community Palliative Care Team and visits to the Hospice’s Outpatients department to receive Complementary Therapies.