North Westmeath Hospice present iPad to Palliative Care Team

Photo shows - from left, Pauline Kane (palliative care consultant), Caroline Gettings (clinical nurse specialist), Emma O’Sullivan (bereavement nurse specialist), and Margaret Claffey (chairperson, North Westmeath Hospice).

The North Westmeath Hospice presented the specialist palliative care team at the Midland Regional Hospital Mullingar with an iPad on behalf of anonymous donors.

The device will be used to facilitate hospice patients who want to Facetime their families during the Covid-19 pandemic and on an ongoing basis when families are unable to visit patients.