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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!

In January, be in with a chance of driving into 2025 in a brand new Toyota Yaris Cross Luna Hybrid from Denis Mahony Toyota! Buy your €10 Annual Car Draw ticket here or contact 01-8327535/01-8294000 and ask for Fundraising. Funds raised from the Annual Car Draw will help us to provide high quality care for patients and their families at no charge.

Ticket sales open on 1st October 2024 and end on 12th January 2025. The draw will take place on 23rd January 2025.

Annual Car Draw tickets make wonderful stocking fillers for Christmas. They are available from our website or by calling 01 8327535.

Prizes

1st – Toyota Yaris Cross Luna Hybrid
2nd – €2,000
3rd – €1,000
4th – 8th – €200 Gift Cards for Blanchardstown Shopping Centre

Calling all Transition Year students!
Host a Coffee Morning to raise funds for St Francis Hospice and be in with a chance to win;
2 free places on Catherine Fulvio’s 13 week TY online cookery course
AND
A cash prize of €250 FOR YOUR CLASS / SCHOOL kindly provided by our campaign sponsor @BewleysIreland.

All you need to do is register your event here & return the funds raised before 29th November or call 01-8327535☕

Terms and conditions can be viewed on the Together for Hospice website here

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.

On September 26th Bewley’s Big Coffee Morning for Hospice took place across Ireland to raise vital funds for specialist palliative care services for those who need it. This event has been running in homes and businesses all over Ireland for 32 years! We are so thankful to everyone who has supported us and we hope that we can count on your support again this September!

Register today for your free coffee pack here or call 01-8327535

If you have hosted a coffee morning you can submit your proceeds here

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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.

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.