{"id":1985,"date":"2012-11-09T13:59:44","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2016-08-23T22:23:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T22:23:07","slug":"the-site-decision-nchas-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/2012\/11\/the-site-decision-nchas-position\/","title":{"rendered":"The site decision-NCHA’s position"},"content":{"rendered":"

NCHA accepts that a decision regarding the location of the National Children’s Hospital has been made by government. NCHA considers the choice of St. James\u00a0 to be a very poor one. In particular, it is unacceptable that the need of our sick youngest citizens, our newborn babies, for optimal care is being long fingered. Only ‘ultimately’\u00a0 (press release\u00a0http:\/\/health.gov.ie\/blog\/press-release\/government-decides-the-location-for-the-new-childrens-hospital<\/a>\/ )<\/a>\u00a0 is it planned to build a Maternity Hospital at St.James.<\/p>\n

NCHA\u00a0 considers the 150 acres at Connolly Hospital, immediately accessible off Dublin’s M50 ring road, to offer unrivalled potential to deliver best medical care for all\u00a0 citizens of Ireland – both adults and children – for the long term future. The Connolly site must be mothballed and protected for such development.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, unless the government has a change of heart regarding the project, there should be no delay in commencing what can only be a short-term strategy – building the children’s hospital on the co-located* James – Coombe campus. As the country cannot afford to build both a new maternity as well as a new children’s hospital in the more expensive inner city, NCHA believes the\u00a0 children’s must be built beside, and physically linked to, the existing Coombe\u00a0 Maternity hospital.<\/p>\n

*The McKinsey Report definition of Co-location (p27) is “within a practical walking distance”. The walk from St James to the Coombe we understand to be 7-8mins.
\nAdult hospitals don’t have children, Maternity and Children’s hospitals do. The few adult hospital staff who are needed in the children’s or maternity hospitals can walk, jog or cycle – sick babies can’t.<\/p>\n

To read the Dolphin Report and allied documents, go to\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.dohc.ie\/issues\/childrens_hospital\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NCHA accepts that a decision regarding the location of the National Children’s Hospital has been made by government. NCHA considers the choice of St. James\u00a0 to be a very poor one. In particular, it is unacceptable that the need of our sick youngest citizens, our newborn babies, for optimal care is being long fingered. Only … Continue reading The site decision-NCHA’s position<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}