Hospice services dogged by years of staff in-fighting

THE board of Galway Hospice has expressed its “utter frustration” at the latest disruption to services at the facility, which has been dogged by staff rows over the past three years.

The 12-bed facility has stopped taking new admissions since last week after the consultant in palliative care medicine, Dr Dympna Waldron, ceased providing specialist cover.

It followed the lodging of a collective bullying complaint against Dr Waldron by 22 of the 26 nursing staff at the hospice last month.