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Gerard Stockil
Mar 10, 2011, 8:59:00 AM3/10/11
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Press Release from THAG
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Gerard Stockil
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From: <chris...@eircom.net>
Date: 10 March 2011 12:07
Subject: THAG Press release
To: thag <th...@googlegroups.com>, david morrissey <antomo...@yahoo.co.uk>, mick murphy <mickm...@dublin.ie>, sean crowe <scro...@gmail.com>, richieoreilly20 <richieo...@hotmail.com>, Gerard Stockil <gerard....@gmail.com>, David Hutchinson Edgar <david.hutc...@gmail.com>
Lateral Thinking and a Logical Solution.
Tallaght Hospital Action Group wishes to thank Philip Lynch for his timely intervention again this morning on RTE radio 1 Morning Ireland programme. Mr Lynch has finally confirmed that the decision to locate the New National Children’s Hospital at the Mater site was purely a political decision. Our new government have announced their willingness to review the decision promptly. Tallaght Hospital Action Group would like to propose a solution that will achieve the World Class facility that our sick children deserve.
The campus at Tallaght Hospital was the only hospital that fulfilled all criteria laid down by the McKenzie report. These were Space, Services, Co-location, Access, Efficiency, People, Teaching and Research, Financial, stability, Full Project Plan. Tallaght Hospital is surrounding by a bank of Council land which is held in trust for the hospital should it need it. It was the only hospital to already have co-located paediatric services on site. It is close to the M50 and has a luas line which runs along the hospital campus and has a stop immediately adjacent to the hospital. Tallaght Hospital is a university teaching hospital .The Trinity University Department for Public Health and Primary care is located on the campus and the Institute of Preventative Medicine is to be established on site. The hospital is also currently surrounded by banks of empty Nama buildings which could be used for a variety of purposes including as parent and child accommodation. This new hospital although on the Tallaght Campus would in essence be a “stand alone” option but with huge additional benefits rather than on an isolated Greenfield site.
The monies saved by locating the New Children’s Hospital could be used to move the Coombe Women’s Hospital to Tallaght simultaneously and thus creating Ireland’s first fully integrated “Cradle to Grave” Health campus. The urgent care and ambulatory care centre planned for Tallaght Hospital could be easily accommodated on the Mater site and indeed this approach would leave ample space to accommodate the Rotunda Hospital on site also.
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny promised the nation on March 9th 2011 that the new government would empower fresh thinking. We urge minister for Health James Reilly to consider our solution.
From: <chris...@eircom.net>
Date: 10 March 2011 12:07
Subject: THAG Press release
To: thag <th...@googlegroups.com>, david morrissey <antomo...@yahoo.co.uk>, mick murphy <mickm...@dublin.ie>, sean crowe <scro...@gmail.com>, richieoreilly20 <richieo...@hotmail.com>, Gerard Stockil <gerard....@gmail.com>, David Hutchinson Edgar <david.hutc...@gmail.com>
Lateral Thinking and a Logical Solution.
Tallaght Hospital Action Group wishes to thank Philip Lynch for his timely intervention again this morning on RTE radio 1 Morning Ireland programme. Mr Lynch has finally confirmed that the decision to locate the New National Children’s Hospital at the Mater site was purely a political decision. Our new government have announced their willingness to review the decision promptly. Tallaght Hospital Action Group would like to propose a solution that will achieve the World Class facility that our sick children deserve.
The campus at Tallaght Hospital was the only hospital that fulfilled all criteria laid down by the McKenzie report. These were Space, Services, Co-location, Access, Efficiency, People, Teaching and Research, Financial, stability, Full Project Plan. Tallaght Hospital is surrounding by a bank of Council land which is held in trust for the hospital should it need it. It was the only hospital to already have co-located paediatric services on site. It is close to the M50 and has a luas line which runs along the hospital campus and has a stop immediately adjacent to the hospital. Tallaght Hospital is a university teaching hospital .The Trinity University Department for Public Health and Primary care is located on the campus and the Institute of Preventative Medicine is to be established on site. The hospital is also currently surrounded by banks of empty Nama buildings which could be used for a variety of purposes including as parent and child accommodation. This new hospital although on the Tallaght Campus would in essence be a “stand alone” option but with huge additional benefits rather than on an isolated Greenfield site.
The monies saved by locating the New Children’s Hospital could be used to move the Coombe Women’s Hospital to Tallaght simultaneously and thus creating Ireland’s first fully integrated “Cradle to Grave” Health campus. The urgent care and ambulatory care centre planned for Tallaght Hospital could be easily accommodated on the Mater site and indeed this approach would leave ample space to accommodate the Rotunda Hospital on site also.
An Taoiseach Enda Kenny promised the nation on March 9th 2011 that the new government would empower fresh thinking. We urge minister for Health James Reilly to consider our solution.
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