Where are you on Christmas Day?
Christmas for an emergency call operator, a firefighter, a patient and a family with a sick child. Just because it is Christmas doesn’t mean people stop being sick or stop getting into medical difficulties. For some families, December 25th isn’t […]
Read MoreThe diet we work on can decrease seizures in children with epilepsy
Eimear Forbes is a senior paediatric dietitian at Temple Street Children’s Hospital. “I joined Temple Street Children’s University Hospital as a dietitian in January 2002 and, in 2010, I took up a position as a specialist dietitian in the hospital’s neurology and […]
Read More‘I’ve never doubted God’s existence but I do query the amount of suffering that goes on in the world’
I started off nursing and did my training in the Richmond Hospital, in Dublin, returning to Cork, where I’m from, to do midwifery. I worked as a staff midwife in the Erinville Maternity Hospital. Because there wasn’t much work in […]
Read More2015 People of the Year Award Winners – Ade Stack and Martin Curley received a People of the Year Award for establishing Hugh’s House
Hugh’s House is a place to stay for families from outside Dublin who have sick children attending Temple Street Children’s Hospital and the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. Ade and Martin donated a six-bedroom house on Belvedere Place, following the death […]
Read MoreSupporters for new children’s hospital welcome commencement of An Bord Pleanála Oral Hearing Process today
An Bord Pleanála (ABP) today began an Oral Hearing into the planning application for the new children’s hospital on a shared campus with St. James’s Hospital at the Hilton Hotel, Kilmainham, Dublin 8. The application also includes plans for an […]
Read MoreIreland is one step closer to having a new world class children’s hospital – An Bord Pleanála oral hearings commence
The planning application for the new children’s hospital was submitted to An Bord Pleanála (ABP) on 10th August 2015 and the plans submitted included those for the new children’s hospital as well as for the two Paediatric OPD and Urgent Care Centres […]
Read MoregHealth Research Receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant for Groundbreaking Research in Global Health and Development
gHealth Research – University College Dublin, announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Drs. Joe Gallagher, Chris Watson and Richard Drew will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, titled “BIOTOPE” – BIOmarkers TO diagnose PnEumonia. Grand […]
Read MoreIndependent Report finds the new children’s hospital will have a transformative impact on Dublin 8
EY Report sets out a roadmap for ‘Harnessing the Potential’ from the new children’s hospital Dublin, November 10th, 2015; An independent report by EY (Ernst Young), published today, outlines opportunities that would be created for residents and businesses in Dublin […]
Read MoreClayton O’Donovan aged 13 months from Clonakilty, West Cork needs a bed in Cork University Hospital
Clayton’s parents, Gearoid and Ashlene have to make a 10 hour round trip once a week to see him. Click here to read full story on the Irish Times
Read MoreNational Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (NCIMD) launches new website
The team at the National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (NCIMD) has just launched a new website – www.metabolic.ie . The website for parents of children with metabolic disorders and healthcare professionals involved in the care and treatment of these children comprises […]
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