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In 1979, she returned to University College Dublin to establish the training programme in clinical psychology. [ 2 ] In 1985, she became a director of the Bereavement Support service of the Irish Hospice Foundation.
St. Francis Hospice, Raheny, Dublin (operating under the care of the Daughters of Charity) is a specialist palliative care service, including an in-patient unit, and home care and specialist out patient and day services. The Hospice, one of two main hospice organisations in Dublin, provides care in a region with a population of c. 500,000 people.
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Hospice comes from the Latin word hospitum which means hospitality. Initially as a form of lodging for the sick, hospice refers to holistic end of life care. The word palliate comes from the Latin word "pallium", which means "cloak"—to palliate is to cloak, or cover up, the symptoms of an illness without curing it. [1]
Noël Browne attempted to introduce free state-funded healthcare for all mothers and children aged under 16 in 1948, but was defeated by Irish Medical Organisation and the Catholic Church, which objected to the expansion of "socialized medicine", so healthcare continued to be delivered by family doctors and in religious and charitable hospitals ...
The Forum of Irish Postgraduate Medical Training Bodies is a medical education body in Ireland. It was established in December 2006 with the stated aim of coordinating the activities of the postgraduate medical colleges of Ireland and their faculties , in order to improve standards of medical education and training.
In December 2003, Our Lady's Hospice opened a satellite unit for specialist palliative care in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, provided through the generosity of the Louis and Zelie Martin Foundation. [11] In 1905 they established St. Joseph's Hospice in Hackney. In August 1939, St. Joseph’s Hospice was taken over as an Air Raid Casualty Station and ...
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