Leading paediatric and neonatal clinicians brief Oireachtas members on exciting plans for new children’s hospital
More than 60 Oireachtas members and their staff attended an information session in the Dáil this week, (March 22, 2017) about the state-of the-art new children’s hospital project. Pictured with the Minister for Heath Simon Harris TD are the leading paediatric and neonatal clinicians who contributed to the briefing, which detailed the exciting innovations in healthcare delivery that will be provided in the new children’s hospital on a campus shared with St James’s Hospital, and the two new paediatric outpatients and urgent care centres at Connolly Hospital and Tallaght Hospital. The Master of the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, which will also relocate to the St James’s Hospital campus, was also in attendance.
Back Row from left to right: Sean Walsh, Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Clinical Director at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin; .Peter Greally, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician, National Children’s Hospital at Tallaght Hospital and Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin; Group Clinical Director, Children’s Hospital Group; . John Pollock, Project Director, National Paediatric Hospital Development Board . Alf Nicholson, Consultant Paediatrician, Temple Street Children’s University Hospital; Professor of Paediatrics, RCSI and HSE National Clinical Lead, Paediatric Clinical Programme. .Ciara Martin, Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine and Clinical Director, the National Children’s Hospital, Tallaght; Front Row from left to right: Sharon Sheehan, Master of the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital; . Alan Irvine, Consultant Dermatologist in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital/ St. James’s Hospital and Professor in Dermatology, Trinity College Dublin. .Eilish Hardiman, Chief Executive, Children’s Hospital Group . Minister for Health, Simon Harris TD . Owen Smith, Professor of Paediatrics and Adolescents Medicines at University College Dublin; Consultant Paediatric Haematologist at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin; Special Advisor, Children’s Hospital; Group; . Emma Curtis, Consultant Paediatrician at the National Children’s Hospital, Tallaght; Medical Director with the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board; . Adrienne Foran, Consultant Neonatologist, Rotunda Hospital and Temple Street Children’s University Hospital and Clinical Director, Temple Street Children’s University Hospital;x
