The Children’s Hospital in Tallaght has reopened without full acute services

The Children’s Hospital in Tallaght has reopened this morning without full acute services.

In a statement released by Children’s Health Ireland it was confirmed that the hospital will redirect critically ill and critically injured children to the Emergency Departments at Crumlin and Temple Street hospitals but will also no longer deal with paediatric surgical inpatients.

Acute services for children were temporarily relocated from Tallaght to Crumlin and Temple Street in March due to the Covid pandemic in order to support Tallaght University Hospital’s adult services with additional staff, emergency facilities and bed capacity.

“We are accelerating some of our original plans to consolidate specific services (in-patient surgery, neurosurgery, day surgery) and to use a city wide approach across Crumlin, Tallaght and Temple Street for other services, such as, access for medical admissions,” a spokesperson for Children’s Health Ireland said.

“As we transition towards a new Urgent Care Centre at Tallaght we are opening on the 3 September as a 24/7 Emergency Care Unit.

“The difference from a Paediatric Emergency Department is that we are re-directing critically ill and critically injured children to our CHI Emergency Departments at Crumlin and Temple Street Further guidance will be available on our website.

“We have implemented a 24-hour single bed management system and process across our four locations at Crumlin, Tallaght, Temple Street and at Connolly (Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown) to best manage access to beds and services across CHI.”