Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children's Hospital: Discussion

Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

It also requires careful planning. We have started with the non-valued adding elements, for example, the warehouses on our campus. We have started moving the central distribution services at Crumlin to Temple Street. The services at St. James's will move together so that, when we move to the campus, we do not have warehouses, which do not add value, at a location where we need most of our focus to be on clinical services as opposed to support services. We have a plan to optimise services, but we must work with the HSE on its plans to modernise the whole of the health system in how the latter supports transactional processes and provides back-of-house supports.