Leopardstown Park Hospital

Leopardstown Park Hospital
Geography
Location	Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland
Organisation
Care system	Public
Hospital type	General
Services
Beds	197
History
Founded	1917
Links
Website	Leopardstown Park Hospital

Leopardstown Hospital is a publicly funded hospital in Foxrock, Dublin, Ireland offering healthcare to elderly patients and war veterans.

The house and grounds were donated in trust in 1917 to found a hospital for wounded and invalided members of the British Armed Forces. Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and involved in World War I. The hospital was established by the British Ministry of Pensions, which funded it and nominated the trustees even after the independence of the Irish Free State in 1922, as did its successor, the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS). In 1974, when the number of British veterans in Dublin had fallen low, a private act was passed by the Oireachtas, with the agreement of the DHSS, to amend the trust deed to allow non-service patients to be admitted. In 1979, management was transferred to a board of nine members, seven now appointed by the Irish Minister of Health and two by the UK Secretary of State for Defence. British war veterans retain priority right of admission.

The hospital is run by the Health Service Executive and offers residential day care, a day centre, respite care and convalescent care for the elderly. The hospital has 197 beds.

In April 2008, Enda Kenny, leader of opposition party Fine Gael, used the hospital as an example of then-Taoiseach Bertie Ahern's failure to provide adequate healthcare.

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