Stop The Hospital

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This afternoon.

Leinster House, Dublin 2

Members of the Connolly For Children’s Hospital group, including Edel Kilillea (above) asking the government to build the new Children’s Hospital at a greenfield site at Connolly beside the M50 instead of pushing ahead with the budget-ballooning, city centre St. James’s site.

Makes sense.

Doomed so.

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12 thoughts on “Stop The Hospital”

    1. SOQ

      I think you will find that an accessible location will be more attractive not less to staff? Consultants are another story.

      Will the patients or parents honestly care where it is? Would the standard of care be any different? No to both so why squeeze it to such an unsuitable site as James?

      Besides certain private practices I expect.

      1. paul

        Or because co-locating with a large adult hospital and an upcoming maternity hospital is best international practice? Sure whatever.

        Connolly is getting an urgent care centre that’s opening later this year, I expect most of these folks to drift away from this ‘Connolly For Kids’ movement then.

        1. SOQ

          And sticking a NATIONAL specialist hospital in an already very over crowded part of the city makes perfect sense does it?

          I lived in Hybreseal behind James for years and the traffic was mad even then. You have the Luas on James’s Street and the SCR on the other. How in God’s name are parents of a very sick child meant to get there in time?

          So let me correct you, the decision to place it @ James was sharp practice not best and what has happened since proves the point.

          1. Cian

            Out of curiosity – who gains from it being in James’ rather than Mater/Connolly/other?

            There is always this background noise that “they” wanted in in location X and that “they” will benefit… and I just don’t understand who exactly would benefit from one particular location (the somebody in question being in a position to influence the decision) especially as the timescales are so long.

  3. A Person

    I agree that James Street, and the Mater prior to that are completely inaccessible for a national hospital. Plus, no car parking for nurses, no accommodation (both parent and staff) for those who might need to stay overnight on short notice, no ready access to a motorway. Trying to get near this place on a morning between 8-11 is nuts. The people who chose it should be named and shamed.

  4. Frilly Keane

    ‘much as I disagree with the James’ site

    Connolly was a non-runner from the off
    so I don’t know what they’re thinking

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