All public hospitals now receiving electronic referrals
GPs across the country can now refer patients into every acute hospital electronically following the completion of phase one of the HSE National eReferral Programme. Over 10,550 ereferrals were received in hospitals in May, up significantly from the 2,289 received […]
Read MoreThe ketogenic diet: what is it all about?
The ketogenic diet is gaining in popularity – and has attracted some controversey – so we asked Eimear Forbes, senior dietitian in ketogenic diet therapies in Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, for her expert opinion on the diet we’ve been […]
Read MoreStatement re: new children’s hospital from Professors of Paediatrics, Owen Smith, UCD, Eleanor Molloy, TCD and Alf Nicholson, RSCI
June 22, 2016: We, the three Professors of Paediatrics in three of the Dublin universities, collectively endorse the campus at St James’s Hospital (SJH) as the right location for the new children’s hospital, which also accommodates paediatric academic and research […]
Read MoreThree Children’s Hospitals unequivocal in our certainty that St James Hospital is the right location. Critical level of clinical support not available at Connolly Hospital
Joint Statement from the Children’s Hospital Group; the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board; Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin; Temple Street Children’s University Hospital; the National Children’s Hospital, Tallaght and St. James’s Hospital Photo Caption: Pictured at the celebratory event marking the […]
Read MoreIrish Children’s Triage System (ICTS) #ChildrensTriage
The National Emergency Medicine Programme (EMP) has today, Thursday, 16th June, 2016, formally launched the Irish Children’s Triage System (ICTS) at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Later today it will also feature at the Social Media and Critical Care Conference […]
Read MoreIs your child getting enough of the ‘sunshine’ vitamin?
Overweight children in Ireland have low vitamin D levels . . . ‘among the lowest in the world’ Sometimes it seems that as soon as we take one health message to heart, we run into another problem as a result. […]
Read MoreThe playroom in Temple Street hospital: children play here without fear
One of the first things that strikes me about the playroom is how hard it is to find. The winding corridors that lead me through the hospital are dark and narrow. So narrow that you cannot pass another person. Low […]
Read MoreMinister for Health, Simon Harris, TD welcomes the granting of planning permission for the new children’s hospital
Press Release; May 26, 2016: Minister for Health Simon Harris TD has said that the development of the new children’s hospital is a priority for him as he assumes the health portfolio on behalf of the new government. The Minister viewed the […]
Read MoreObesity needs urgent action warns research organisation
Brussels, 19 May 2016: The leading organisation responsible for research into obesity in Europe has warned that unless something is quickly done to tackle the region’s rising obesity epidemic, it is going to have a devastating effect on healthcare costs […]
Read MoreWelcome and delight from families and clinicians in response to An Bord Pleanála’s decision to grant planning permission for the new children’s hospital on a campus shared with St. James’s Hospital
The Children’s Hospital Group, the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, the three children’s hospitals, St. James’s Hospital and the Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital jointly welcome the positive decision announced by ABP today “A Giant Step Forward for Children’s […]
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