Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board

Dr. Emma Curtis:

I can respond to that question. The new children's hospital is 100% composed of single rooms, so no differentiation is made between a private ward and a public ward in the way there might be in an adult hospital. Currently, the consultants we have in the hospitals have type B contracts, which means they are entitled to attend to outpatients in the hospital. We have nine outpatient suites which are meeting that requirement. Paediatrics has considerably less private practice than adult medicine. I have to bow to Mr. Pollock, who knows what the construction contracts are. However, that component is very small and it meets the contractual obligations we have in employing those consultants.

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