{"id":9,"date":"2011-08-22T15:20:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2023-08-18T11:51:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T11:51:45","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media Contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Fin Breatnach:\u00a0 fin.breatnach@gmail.com\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Roisin Healy: drroisinhealy@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Who We Are:<\/strong> Founded in 2008, the New Children\u2019s Hospital Alliance (NCHA) is a group of health professionals, parents, grandparents, ex-patients and other interested persons from all over Ireland who wish to ensure that the correct decisions are taken regarding the location of the new National Paediatric Hospital (NPH). Children must be central to all considerations of the development of their new hospital.<\/p>\n

New Children\u2019s Hospital Alliance Goal:<\/strong>\u00a0As a nation, to provide the highest quality of care for our children as measured by patient outcome and patient experience.<\/p>\n

More than four thousand supporters registered\u00a0over a 5 month period with our website in support of our campaign to have an independent review of the process of the choice of Mater site. Registration finished in March 2011. [Sadly, the Taoiseach reneged on Fine Gael’s pre-election promise to review “the entire process” opting instead in June 2011 for a limited financial review using three comparator ‘notional ‘sites, and a clinical analysis which did not address its terms of reference].<\/p>\n

Our website www.thenewchildrenshospital.ie is designed to record the debate so far and to reflect our serious concerns -concerns originally regarding the process which\u00a0 led to the decision to locate the hospital on the site of the Mater Campus, and now, since the rejection of the Mater site by An Bord Plean\u00e1la in Feb 2012, with\u00a0 the continued blinkered obsession of the Dept. of Health with placing the\u00a0 only truly national hospital in the country on the grounds of a\u00a0 adult\u00a0 hospital. Other more important requirements for children are sidelined while the ambitions of adult institutions are given free play.<\/p>\n

Letter to the Irish Times, July 2010, from some of our members in support of Maurice Neligan\u2019s article in The Irish Times:<\/strong>
\nMadam, \u2013 We, the undersigned, like Maurice Neligan (Irish Times, HEALTHplus, July 27th, 2010)<\/a>,<\/span> have had the privilege of spending most of our professional lives caring for sick children. Between us we have worked in all three Dublin children\u2019s and maternity hospitals, in Irish regional and county hospitals and in many leading paediatric hospitals in North America, Australia and the UK.<\/p>\n

We, like him, believe that placing the national paediatric hospital on the geographically constrained Mater site in Dublin\u2019s city centre is not in the best interest of the sick children of Ireland. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n

Dr FIN BREATNACH, paediatric oncologist
\nProf KARINA BUTLER, infectious diseases paediatrician
\nDr GERRY CANNY, respiratory paediatrician
\nDr BILL CASEY, paediatric anaesthetist
\nDr COLETTE CORCORAN, public health medicine
\nMr FRANK DOWLING, spinal and orthopaedic surgeon
\nDr DESMOND DUFF, paediatric cardiologist
\nProf RAYMOND FITZGERALD, paediatric surgeon
\nMr ESMOND FOGARTY, orthopaedic surgeon
\nProf EDWARD GUINEY, paediatric surgeon
\nDr SINEAD HARTE, paediatric anaesthetist
\nDr ROISIN HAYES, paediatric radiologist
\nDr ROISIN HEALY, paediatric emergency medicine
\nDr JERRY KELLEHER, paediatric radiologist
\nDr PEADAR MACMANAIS, ophthalmologist
\nMr ANDREW MAGUIRE, ENT surgeon
\nMr DAVID MOORE, orthopaedic surgeon
\nMr JACQUES NOEL, orthopaedic surgeon
\nDr PAMELA O\u2019CONNOR, paediatrician and neonatologist
\nProf BARRY O\u2019DONNELL, paediatric surgeon, past president RCSI
\nProf NIALL O\u2019DONOHUE, FTCD, emeritus professor of paediatrics, TCD
\nDr EITHNE PHELAN, paediatric radiologist
\nMr FERGAL QUINN, paediatric surgeon
\nDr MARY WALDRON, paediatric nephrologist.
\nIrish Times \u2013 30.07.2010<\/p>\n

The following missed signing the letter due to time constraints. They have requested that they be associated with it:<\/p>\n

Prof JOE McMENAMIN, paediatric neurologist, Prof of Paediatrics, RCSI
\nDr ANNE O\u2019MEARA, paediatric oncologist
\nDr MARGARET SHERIDAN, neonatologist and paediatrician
\nProf CONOR WARD, Prof emeritus of paediatrics UCD.<\/p>\n

Independent Review Campaign, Nov.2010-March 2011
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Prior to the General Election in 2011 we ran a campaign calling on the government to have an Independent Review of the site selection for the new children’s hospital. \u00a0This campaign closed with the election of the new government and its promise to hold such a review.<\/p>\n

The subsequent so-called “Independent Review” of July 2011 did not address the core issues. \u00a0It was, in the opinion of our association, a white-wash. (see ‘Independent Review’ page on this website)<\/p>\n

Below are the fliers used in the campaign. Please note that registration for support of the campaign closed March 2011.<\/p>\n

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