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Plans for the National Children’s Hospital at Tallaght

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20/04/2012

Archived item. This item is published here for historical reasons. The information below may be out of date.

Tallaght Hospital and South Dublin County Council have formally submitted their joint bid for the new National Children’s Hospital to be co-located on a publicly owned site adjacent to Tallaght Hospital. It is proposed that these plans will generate a Tallaght Medical Quarter.

Eilísh Hardiman, Chief Executive of Tallaght Hospital stated that “Tallaght Hospital has worked jointly with South Dublin County Council on this submission to the Review Group established by the Minister. The proposal envisages the development of a Tallaght Medical Quarter with state of the art, patient friendly children’s, maternity and adult hospital facilities. An overarching campus governance arrangement will facilitate separately governed hospitals to achieve maximum optimisation of the campus for patients and their families”.

 

Philomena Poole, County Manager, South Dublin County Council added that “The development opportunity at Tallaght Medical Quarter has many driving factors in accommodating a children’s and maternity hospital in terms of clinical and operational tri-location benefits, access, site availability and buildability. Our view is that this proposal, from a healthcare planning, urban planning and timescale perspective, offers a value for money opportunity to deliver best practice paediatric services and facilities at the proposed Tallaght Medical Quarter which will see delivery of the National Children’s Hospital in 2016"

 

Tallaght Hospital and SDCC believe the proposal offers real and substantial benefits. We respect the work of the Hospital Review Group and therefore we will not be engaging in further comment on the submission during the review process.

 

ENDS

 

Laoise O’Murchú, Communications Manager, Tallaght Hospital: Tel (01) 414 5918 or (087) 280 2840, email: Laoise.omurchu@amnch.ie

 

South Dublin County Council, Communications Office: Tel: (01) 4149285, e-mail: communications@sdublincoco.ie

 

 

Issued: Thursday, 19 April 2012

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