Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

National Children's Hospital: Discussion

Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

No. To be clear, this is about one entity and staff joining the services such as the emergency department services and general paediatrics. We have increased the number of staff in those services and then the staff will rotate or are allocated on rosters out to the services in Connolly Hospital. We want to assure the public that the staff will be from Children's Health Ireland not different staff. It is also to ensure that if patients need to come back later into the hospitals that people understand them and they come back in under the same clinician. It is about new ways of working and trying to give very unified and standardised services across Dublin starting with Connolly Hospital and then doing the same in Tallaght next year.