Tallaght Hospital reviews bed stock capacity

Tallaght Hospital is currently reviewing its entire bed stock capacity in order to develop plans to “future-proof service requirements for the years ahead”. However, there are currently no plans to transfer paediatric beds to the adult services within Tallaght Hospital, Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has said. The existing paediatric services at Tallaght will move to the new National Children’s Hospital (NCH) in Dublin 8 when built, as will Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and the Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street. A satellite centre of the NCH, providing urgent care and outpatient care, is planned for the Tallaght campus.…