Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland
Ms Eil?sh Hardiman:
I can help to answer that. I am sorry that Senator Clonan's son had to wait so long for treatment. We identified two principal risks for our organisation. One relates to patient safety and the other to access to care. We are putting in our reports and escalating to the system that we have challenges with delivering what we want to in Children's Health Ireland. We know the standards. People come back to us internationally wanting to work and we are limited. We are constrained with some of our physical infrastructure. I am not making excuses but we are going to move out of these facilities in the next year and a half. We have 12 theatres and we will have a 13th. There will be 22 in the new children's hospital. There are real, genuine constraints. As an organisation and as somebody who values children and their families, we have identified patient safety and escalated it through our processes. It is compromising and we are sorry about that. There are other issues around access to care.
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