Comments for The New Children's Hospital Alliance

Comment on Choices facing the Government October 2012 by Ann Coyle

Ann Coyle — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:06:27 +0000

If we are going to move the new Children’s Hospital forward its clear that a green site that has plenty of room for access, expansion is the best choice for the future of this country. Parents of new children that are sick need access to the best specialists. Therefore it makes sense to provide a new co located maternaty and children’s hospital. Avoiding having to revisit this problem again, and providing a hospital that the whole country can be proud of.
Children are our future, make the right choice!

Comment on Choices facing the Government October 2012 by David O'Riordan

David O'Riordan — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:21:57 +0000

I fully endorse the NCHA position

Comment on Dolphin Report is wrong by Margaret Fitzsimons

Margaret Fitzsimons — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:12:45 +0000

I did hear that the Coombe Hospital was to be relocated to Tallaght. What has happened to that plan I wonder.

Comment on Hospital Developer speaks out, 02/03/; read Responses 05/03/2012 by Ann Coyle

Ann Coyle — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:41:59 +0000

Mr Sheehan,
Well said, it is very frustrating to see tax payers money wasted.
Rather than waste any more money, perhaps if the people of Ireland were allowed to vote via text, on their opinion as to the best place for the new hospital. The government would have to accept that decision, and develop what is best for the future generations of Irish citizens.

Ann Coyle

Comment on Hospital Developer speaks out, 02/03/; read Responses 05/03/2012 by Vincent Pippet

Vincent Pippet — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:28:58 +0000

Karl Marx said ‘What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history’ .
IK Brunel designed and built a single storey prefabricated hospital on a greenfield site in Renioi in Turkey in under 12 months in 1854.
That basic design has stood the test of time, and has allowed infinite adaptaion.
Hospitals using this design were still being built 100 years later, these hospitals are still in use today such has been their ability to adapt and respond to medical advances.
Please may our medical administrators see sense and build the new childrens hospital on a green field site that will be big enough to facilitate infinite adaptaion into the future.

Comment on Comments from website visitors by admin

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:41:02 +0000

Admin reply: Suggest interested persons read the Observer Submissions made at the oral hearing of An Bord Pleanála by Dr Breathnach, Dr Healy and Dr Duff . See An Bord Pleanála page on our website to access- http://thenewchildrenshospital.ie/index.php/an-bord-pleanala/submissions/. NCHA does not have a preferred site as it is not party to details of available sites. NCHA advocates the use of a validated scoring system for potential sites while applying the McKinsey criteria. Co-location of a maternity hospital with the children’s hospital is essential and more important for the children than is co-location with an adult hospital.[It should be noted that adult specialists each working ‘very parttime’ in a paediatric hospital may retard excellence and development of in-depth specialisms within the breadth of tertiary paediatric care]. A university presence, with Education and basic, translational and clinical Research is a driver of excellence and must be on site.

Comment on Comments from website visitors by Pat Leahy

Pat Leahy — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:27:54 +0000

I thought the Mahon tribunal would end corrupt politics. Bertie’s fingerprints have been all over the Mater site from the beginning so is he now to be rewarded with a legacy without rational thinking going into the project?
The correct decision can only be made by a group independent of politics and vested interests.

Comment on Comments from website visitors by John Holland

John Holland — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:36:57 +0000

The decision to base the hospital close to the Mater is a disgrace and in my mind has strong political motivations.
The deferred decision to go back again to a group of external consultants paid by the government to review the plans is equally ridiculous – the Minister has been told NO.

The losers are the people of the country with sick kids and families planning on having more kids who may take ill, it could be any of us. I just hope the peeple of the country make their position known and use democracy to control this situation – my question is how do we do this?

Comment on Comments from website visitors by Roisin Lawless

Roisin Lawless — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:46:31 +0000

Do all the doctors supporting this campaign believe that, in Ireland, co-locating a National Children’s Hospital beside an adult teaching hospital with specialties, will not provide better outcomes for our sick children?

Are the previous reports (that reported locating a NCH beside an adult teaching would be best) wrong?

Do they propose a stand alone hospital instead or locating this hospital beside a an adult hospital with no specialties? Is this best international practice and in the interests of sick children?

I am amused at the debate over accessibility as I have attended all the Dublin children hospitals and I did not find Temple Street any more “difficult” to access than Crumlin or Tallaght.

As a mother and a nurse, the level of care my child received was my number one priority.

I would very much like to hear where Dr Breathnach and Dr Healy and Dr Duff believe the National Childrens Hospital should be located?

Comment on Dr. Dolphin and ‘Noise’, 09.03.2012 by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:30:25 +0000

Businessman, Cork : "it’s not that Dr. Frank Dolphin’s appointment as Chairman of the new location committee is unlawful, it’s that his appointment undermines the objective impartiality of any future decisions the new committee may make. Jurisprudence has a long established hypothetical concept called the test of “objective bias”. It’s not whether the apprehensions or suspicions that an affected party to a decision or judgement may have but what a reasonable fair minded non cynical objective observer would think of Dr. Dolphin’s appointment."