Medical reasons to co-locate — none

Minister Simon Harris at the Oireachtas Health Committee (29th Jan 2019) said “We must remember the reason the site [St. James’s Hospital] was chosen……We had to build the hospital in the location that would deliver the best medical outcomes… the primary reasoning behind the location of the site must be the clinical outcomes for our children”

One of he saddest thing about this whole fiasco of building at St. James’s is that the Minister is wrong and refuses to admit it. There is no evidence in the medical literature to support the Minister’s contention that a paediatric hospital is dependent on a co-located adult hospital to achieve best medical outcomes for its children.