![]() Ms Hardiman of CHI will speak further to the benefits that have been realised for paediatric care, but a 65% reduction in the waiting list for general paediatrics within a year of opening, despite the challenges of the pandemic, speaks volumes. The paediatric outpatient and urgent care centre at Connolly Hospital opened in July 2019. ![]() We encourage members of the committee to accept the development board’s invitation to visit the site and see the vision being realised. With the mock-ups of how the various rooms will be completed, there is a tangible sense of the positive clinical care experiences that patients and their families will have in the new hospital. One of most impressive aspects for the team was the seemingly endless corridor on the theatre level, which will be home to 22 world-class theatres and the respective preparation and ante rooms. There will be gardens, recreational facilities, a school for the patients and a university campus for future health care professionals. It is effectively a new village to provide for Ireland’s sickest children, their families and the healthcare professionals who will care for them. It is clear that this is not just a hospital. On a recent site visit, we got a real sense of how welcoming an environment it will be for children, their families and CHI's staff, with plenty of natural light and breakout spaces in addition to the world-class health facilities. The fit-out of certain internal areas has begun, with rooms and clinical areas now discernible. Gunning and his colleagues will speak to the specifics, but the distinctive shape of the building is becoming clear. The construction project is only one part of three interrelated elements of the NCH programme for the delivery of a new paediatric model of care in Ireland, the others being the ICT infrastructure and the operational integration of the three existing children’s hospitals.ĭespite the obvious challenges the Covid-19 pandemic has imposed on us, significant progress has been made on the project. James’s Hospital as well as outpatient and urgent care centres located at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown and Tallaght University Hospital. ![]() The project comprises the new children’s hospital at St. The development of the new children’s hospital is a Government priority project and will bring together the services currently provided at three children’s hospitals into a modern, custom designed, world-class, digital hospital to deliver the best care and treatments for Ireland’s sickest children. The new children’s hospital project is the most significant capital investment programme ever undertaken in Ireland’s healthcare system. Eamonn Quinn, principal officer for major capital projects. I am acting director in the health infrastructure division of the Department of Health and I am joined by my colleague, Mr. I thank the committee for inviting officials from the Department of Health to join representatives of the NPHDB and CHI to provide the committee with an update on the progress of the new children’s hospital project. Appearing before an Oireachtas Committee.
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