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Regulatory Impact Analysis - Children’s Health Bill 2018
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From: Department of Health
- Published on: 26 July 2018
- Last updated on: 26 October 2020
The Children’s Health Bill provides for the enhancement of children’s health services and for that purpose to establish a body to be known as Children’s Health Ireland to plan and deliver paediatric services to provide:
- for the transfer of employees, land, property, rights and liabilities of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin to Children’s Health Ireland
- for the transfer of employees, property, rights and liabilities of the Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street to Children’s Health Ireland
- to provide for the transfer of certain employees, property, rights and liabilities of the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating the National Children’s Hospital to Children’s Health Ireland
- for the transfer of certain employees, property, rights and liabilities of the Health Service Executive to Children’s Health Ireland
- for an additional function of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and to transfer certain property, rights and liabilities of that Board to Children’s Health Ireland and to provide for the dissolution of that Board; and to provide for related matters
Regulatory Impact Analysis of the Children’s Health Bill
It is Government policy that Our Lady’s Hospital Crumlin, Temple Street Children’s University Hospital and the paediatric services at Tallaght will merge to become a single national tertiary/regional secondary acute hospital in Dublin.
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General Scheme of the Children’s Health Bill
The new children‘s hospital will consolidate the existing paediatric services provided in Our Lady‘s Children‘s Hospital, Children‘s University Hospital, and the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, incorporating the National Children‘s Hospital, to become the single national centre for highly specialised paediatric care with the critical mass to deliver best outcomes.
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