{"id":2988,"date":"2016-09-08T16:53:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T16:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2016-10-31T20:20:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:20:26","slug":"co-located-maternity-a-red-line-for-critical-care-consultants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/2016\/09\/co-located-maternity-a-red-line-for-critical-care-consultants\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-located Maternity -A “Red Line” for Critical Care Consultants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is\u00a0 the Submission to An Bord Plean\u00e1la from the Department of Paediatric Intensive Care, September 2015\u00a0 , signed by fifteen medical consultants.<\/span><\/p>\n

Re: Co-location of a maternity hospital with the new children’s hospital\u00a0 [PA0043]<\/span><\/p>\n

To the Secretary,<\/p>\n

We, whose daily practice involves caring for critically ill neonates, unreservedly support the need for a single, national children’s hospital, and are willing to compromise on many fronts to achieve this goal, acknowledging that no site is ideal.<\/p>\n

Co-location with a physically linked maternity hospital is, in our expert opinion, non-negotiable. We are unwilling to endorse a national children’s hospital on a site that cannot accommodate this truly critical adjacency. To do so would be to fail those infants whom we are entrusted to protect. To proceed with such a project will result in the avoidable death or disability of many new-born babies for years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is our earnest wish that the proposal for the St. James’s site can deliver such a co-location. If, however, this is not the case, we urge the Board to have the courage and integrity to act accordingly.<\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n

The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery<\/strong>, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin –Prof Mark Redmond, Mr Lars Nolke , Mr Jonathon McGuinness<\/p>\n

Department of Cardiology<\/strong>, Our Lady\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital Crumlin–Dr Colin McMahon,\u00a0 Dr Orla Franklin,\u00a0 Dr Paul Oslizlok, Dr Kevin Walsh, Dr Damien Kenny, Dr Terry Prendiville<\/p>\n

,The Joint Department of Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and The Children’s University Hospital<\/strong>, <\/strong>Temple Street–<\/strong>Dr Martina Healy,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>Dr Kevin Carson,\u00a0\u00a0 Dr Cathy McMahon,\u00a0\u00a0 Dr Dermot Doherty, Dr Suzanne Crowe,\u00a0 Dr Cormac Breatnach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below is\u00a0 the Submission to An Bord Plean\u00e1la from the Department of Paediatric Intensive Care, September 2015\u00a0 , signed by fifteen medical consultants. Re: Co-location of a maternity hospital with the new children’s hospital\u00a0 [PA0043] To the Secretary, We, whose daily practice involves caring for critically ill neonates, unreservedly support the need for a single, … Continue reading Co-located Maternity -A “Red Line” for Critical Care Consultants<\/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-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988"}],"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=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2996,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewchildrenshospital.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}