The Paediatric Hospital Development Board has published a “prior information notice” in the EU Journal and on the Government’s e-tenders website in relation to a forthcoming tender competition for the work. (Independent) >
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Gerry Burke on raising money to build new maternity hospitals
€100 million in capital for the Limerick project equates to about €10 per annum for 26 years for each of the 378,000 citizens of the Mid-West region. If that were to be collected through the progressive Local Property Tax system,…
Holles Street hopital site to be handed over to State after relocation
Construction of the National Maternity Hospital on a new site at St Vincent’s hospital will be completed by 2018, according to the Master of the hospital, Dr Rhona Mahony. Dr Mahony described the five-year timeframe for completion of the €150 million project as…
Locating children’s hospital
The lesson of the attempt to locate the children’s hospital at the Mater site is clear. The site was too small and was turned down by the planning appeals board. Here, again, we already know the preferred site is too…
Doctors re plan for new children’s hospital
Dr JERRY KELLEHER, Dr FIN BREATNACH, Dr DESMOND DUFF, Dr FRIEDA GORMAN, Prof EDWARD J GUINEY, Prof BARRY O’DONNELL, Prof O CONOR WARD: “As a group of independent retired paediatric specialists we have no partisan interests, we are not suggesting…
Children’s hospital delayed until at least 2019
The new national children’s hospital is unlikely to be ready until 2019 “at the earliest”, according to sources involved in planning the project. This is three years later than promised in the programme for government and at least a year…
Psychiatric patients moving to €22m facility
THE centuries-old wards of St Brendan’s Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin will finally fall silent next month as the institution closes its doors. The remaining 30 patients will leave the dilapidated building – once home to over 2,500 patients – for…
The missing link to mental health services
The Phoenix Care Centre on Dublin’s North Circular Road formally opens its doors on Thursday, replacing the antiquated St Brendan’s Hospital in Grangegorman which has operated for the past 199 years. “There were times when we never thought we’d see…
Reilly decisions spark call for inquiry
In June 2011, The Irish Times reported that Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin had announced €20 million capital funding for a new emergency department at Wexford General Hospital. About the same time Minister for the Environment Phil…
Minister may scrap board developing national children’s hospital project
A turf war has erupted between St James’s Hospital, where the building is to be located, and the Health Service Executive over control of the project. St James’s has told the Department of Health it should be the department’s direct…
Proposals for €60m private hospital in Ennis get go-ahead
Ennis Town Council gave the go-ahead yesterday to the 97-bed Duesbury hospital, including “12 consultant suites with 30 first-strategy recovery cubicles and office accommodation”. within the 19th-century protected structure that housed the former Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital on the northern…
Primary care centre issue refuses to go away and there may yet be more to come
The first relates to the approach taken by the Minister and the wider Cabinet in disregarding carefully-worked-out criteria for deciding which towns should get these centres. Developed by HSE officials for then minister of state Róisín Shortall, they leaned heavily…
‘There are better facilities in Mountjoy Prison than there are for these children’
The office of Prof Owen Smith, consultant paediatric haematologist at Crumlin, overlooks the construction site where the new facility is taking shape. He says the project is about “restoring dignity” to the patients and parents who use the cancer and…
Orla Tinsley: We CF patients need to focus on living
The “where possible” rooms are not clustered together on a floor where staff are trained in CF. There is no exercise equipment in these unspecified rooms in the 100-bed building. This week I arrived seeking treatment for infection and was…
Shortall accused Reilly over second list
Separate from her concerns about the list of projects to be developed using public private partnerships (PPPs), Ms Shortall accused the Minister of disregarding the ranking drawn up with HSE officials for capital-funded centres, according to the documents obtained under…
Politics, not patients, the key influence in choosing hospital site
One would have thought it important enough that the whole country should have a say on where it’s located and to make sure that the interests of children are properly served. (Independent) >
Times editorial: The children’s hospital
Medical interests can be as ruthless as politicians’ in promoting personal and corporate agendas. What is important in this instance is that staff from the existing three children’s hospitals should have appropriate input into the governance of the State-owned hospital.…
Crumlin in bid for €8m update of old facilities
Consultant paediatric cardiologist Dr Orla Franklin said the outdated facilities must be addressed. (Independent) >
Crumlin doctors re site of childrens’ hospital
Sir, – The undersigned consultants at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin wish to re-emphasise that the National Children’s Hospital (NCH) should be physically linked to a maternity hospital. High-risk babies from throughout Ireland who will require emergency medical care at…
Mater boss appeals to Kenny over hospital site
St James’s Hospital is believed to have edged ahead of Connolly Hospital as the Government’s choice for the children’s hospital, provided planning concerns can be overcome on the south city site. But Professor Brendan Kinsley, chairperson of the Medical Board…
Beaumont clinical directors on site of childrens’ hospital
Clinical directors PAUL BRENNAN, PETER CONLON, ADK HILL, JOSEPH KEAVENY, Beaumont hospital in letter to Irish Times > Sir, – We the undersigned clinical directors at Beaumont hospital wish to affirm our support for proposals to build the National Children’s…
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Posted in Adk Hill, Connolly, Joseph Keaveny, National children's, Paul Brennan, Peter Conlon
Posted in Adk Hill, Connolly, Joseph Keaveny, National children's, Paul Brennan, Peter Conlon
Call for children’s site to be near maternity hospital
CONSULTANT MEDICAL staff at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin have called on Minister for Health James Reilly to ensure the new national children’s hospital is built adjacent to a maternity hospital. In a letter signed by 43 consultants at Crumlin,…
London hospital ex-chief, Ian Hann, warns over siting of children’s facility
A FORMER medical director of Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London has warned the Government against siting the new national children’s hospital in a greenfield location. Prof Ian Hann says the proposed new hospital will not be able to…
Connolly backed as site of new children’s hospital
CONNOLLY Hospital has received the formal backing of Beaumont Hospital and the Royal College of Surgeons as the site for the new national children’s hospital. Connolly, in north-west Dublin, remains the favourite to be chosen as the location of the…
Consultants warn Reilly over children’s hospital site
Dr Reilly said at the weekend he would bring the long-awaited decision on the hospital to the Taoiseach and Tánaiste in the next 10 days and a Cabinet decision was likely to follow shortly after. However, consultants working in Dublin’s…
Children’s hospital site now a ‘political decision’
THE LOCATION of the new national children’s hospital is becoming a political decision rather than a medical one, the master of the Rotunda maternity hospital has warned. With a long-awaited decision on the project imminent, Dr Sam Coulter-Smith has expressed…
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Posted in National children's, Sam Coulter-Smith (obstetrician)
Posted in National children's, Sam Coulter-Smith (obstetrician)
Twomey defends Reilly over primary care list addition
Liam Twomey can’t explain why they were added to the final document: “I have no idea. That’s one that Minister Reilly will have to answer himself. I’m sure there is no indication that there is a conflict of interest or…
Two sites in Reilly’s constituency added to primary care centre list
Swords and Balbriggan were among five locations added to the priority list for building new primary care centres announced by the Minister last July. Neither featured in lists of the top 30 locations which the HSE recommended should receive priority…
Start children’s hospital and stop endless debate, says Drumm
The time has come to start “digging” the foundations of the new national children’s hospital and stop the endless debate about its location, former HSE chief Professor Brendan Drumm said yesterday. He was speaking after Health Minister James Reilly said he would…
Development at CUH to include paediatric facilities
A new paediatric unit is being planned for Cork University Hospital (CUH), with a decision on a HSE planning application expected from Cork City Council later this year. (Irish Times) >
