New Children’s Hospital
Enhancing quality care for Ireland's children and young people is the primary driver for developing the new Children's Hospital of Ireland. It is universally accepted within the paediatric healthcare community that the sickest children, requiring access to highly specialist professionals, equipment and facilities, need to be accommodated in one children's hospital and there is unanimous agreement that there is an urgent need for capital investment in children's healthcare infrastructure in Dublin.
The Children's Hospital of Ireland will also include an ambulatory and urgent care centre at Tallaght which will provide out-patient, day-care and emergency care services primarily for families in the south-side of the city.
An independent review of the project to build the new Children's Hospital of Ireland on the site of the new Mater Campus was commissioned by the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly TD. The Independent Review team unanimously and unequivocally recommended the immediate implementation of plans to consolidate the current Dublin inpatient acute care paediatric unit into a single National Paediatric Hospital located on the Mater site.
Following endorsement of the report of the Independent Review team by the Minister for Health the Development Board made an application for planning. This application currently sits with An Bord Pleanála. For details of the application see www.newchildrenshospitalplanningapplication.ie
Latest News
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Delivery of New Children’s Hospital of Ireland will bring benefits to Ireland
17 October 2011
The oral hearing into the development of the New Children’s Hospital today, 17th October, heard of the world-class hospital that will facilitate excellence in the delivery of clinical services, including teaching and research, at Eccles Street.
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New Children's Hospital of Ireland submits planning application to An Bord Pleanála
20 July 2011
The Development Board for the new Children’s Hospital of Ireland project is today, Wednesday 20th July 2011, submitting a planning application to An Bord Pleanála for the development of a new children’s hospital at the Mater Hospital campus, Eccles St.
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New children's hospital welcomes Minister's announcement to proceed to planning
06 July 2011
The Development Board welcomes the announcement today, 6th July, by the Minister for Health James Reilly of the timely completion of the review of the new Children’s Hospital of Ireland project and the confirmation of the Mater site
