Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Monday, 16 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. James Menton:
The patient risks are outlined in our fact sheet and cover three points. One is the need to have seamless integrated patient care on the same campus between the new maternity hospital facility and the physical interconnection between that facility and the current university hospital, which allows clinicians such as Dr. Walshe and Dr. Holian and their 248 other colleagues in 50 specialties to address very quickly acute medical needs without reference to anything other than the primacy of the need of the patient, in very simple terms. Maybe Dr. Holian would like to explain the position on the ground.
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