New children's hospital (Dublin)
| Phoenix Children's Hospital Ireland | |
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| National Paediatric Hospital Development Board | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Dublin, Ireland |
| Organisation | |
| Hospital type | Teaching |
| Network | Phoenix Children's Health |
| Services | |
| Speciality | Children's hospital |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in the Republic of Ireland |
Phoenix Children's Hospital Ireland is the proposed name for a a children's hospital that is under construction on the campus of St James's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, as a regional secondary and national tertiary centre.
Previously referred to in planning documents simply as the new children's hospital, it will combine the services currently provided at Dublin's three children's hospitals: Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin; Children's University Hospital, Temple Street; and the National Children's Hospital at Tallaght Hospital. The hospital will be the lead centre in the Phoenix Children's Health network, which will eventually encompass all acute paediatric services in Ireland. In addition to the main hospital at St James's, satellite centres will operate attached to Tallaght Hospital and Connolly Hospital providing local urgent care and outpatient services.
The consolidation of Ireland's tertiary paediatric care into a single centre was first proposed in 1993 by the Faculty of Paediatrics oat the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. In 2005, the Irish government commissioned McKinsey & Company to undertake a review of children's health services. This resulted in 2006's Children's Health First report, which recommended that, in view of Ireland's size and expected demand, there should be a single tertiary paediatric centre based in Dublin, with good transport and access links, room for future expansion, ideally colocated with a leading tertiary adult centre, and "at the nexus of an integrated paediatric service" with urgent care centres around Dublin and with regional children's hospitals around the country. The report proposed nine assessment criteria for making a decision on the best location and model.
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