#Childrens Health Week 2021

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#Childrens Health Week 2021

Insights on healthcare services for children in the Munster region as plans to build CUH Children's Hospital draw closer to becoming a reality

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p>Hannah, Jim, Lucia, Gemma, Aimee and Pia O’Farrell at Leinster House to hear an apology over the circumstances of the death of Shane O’Farrell. <span class="contextmenu emphasis CaptionCredit">Picture: Collins Photos</span>
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Mick Clifford: Shane O’Farrell case shows the State still protects itself, not its people

Ireland’s justice failures are not isolated — they reflect a deeper State culture of denial, deflection, and self-protection

<p> Dr O'Brien said of vaccine information: 'It is extremely important that people are getting information from accurate, credible sources, and that these individual attributions are really not something that has any credibility to it.' Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie</p>

news

Public urged to use 'credible, accurate sources' for vaccine information

<p>Rory O'Brien, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant on the times to bring your child to the Emergency Department. </p>

parenting

The ten times you should always bring your child to the Emergency Department

Take your kitchen scales to the shop when you're buying cashmere

fashion and beauty

Take your kitchen scales to the shop when you're buying cashmere

Childhood diabetes: 'Luckily, we caught it on time'

health and wellbeing

Childhood diabetes: 'Luckily, we caught it on time'

'She takes anything you throw at her': early arrival Paige thrives despite the odds

health and wellbeing

'She takes anything you throw at her': early arrival Paige thrives despite the odds

'I get to play every day with the most amazing children': Fun and games in hospital

'I get to play every day with the most amazing children': Fun and games in hospital

A father was so grateful to the staff on CUH's Puffin Ward, he built a toy MRI simulator to help prepare children for the scanning procedure

Fri, 26 Nov, 2021

Baby with mother at routine medical appointment

Parents excited as Children's Hospital edges closer to reality

Young patients and their parents can look forward to being treated in a world-class environment as the new Children's Hospital at CUH edges closer to becoming a reality

Thu, 25 Nov, 2021

CUH LEAD - P16

'I often meet people at rock bottom.' The hospital porter changing people's lives

Frank Higgins is a porter in Cork University Hospital, but you’d be as likely to meet him on the road as in the hospital foyer

Wed, 24 Nov, 2021

'You're in a blur, you don't know day from night.' The reality of having a child in hospital

'You're in a blur, you don't know day from night.' The reality of having a child in hospital

Fearne is nine, and her epilepsy has meant multiple stays in hospital, where her mum Sinéad was forced to sleep on a chair for weeks on end

Tue, 23 Nov, 2021

Marie Watson: Looking after other people’s children is such an honour

Marie Watson: Looking after other people’s children is such an honour

Marie Watson is a Clinical Nurse Manager with the Children’s Unit in Cork University Hospital

Tue, 23 Nov, 2021

CUH DOWNPAGE - p16

Diagnostics can help transform the Irish healthcare system

Roche Diagnostics has partnered with CUH Charity to highlight the positive impact that Cork University Hospital (CUH) pediatric services has for children and their families

Mon, 22 Nov, 2021

Scoil CUH: Meet the teachers whose mission is to give kids a sense of autonomy in hospital

Scoil CUH: Meet the teachers whose mission is to give kids a sense of autonomy in hospital

Tucked neatly away on the top floor of Cork University Hospital, there’s a school. The team who run it are nurturers as well as educators

Mon, 22 Nov, 2021

A child-focused hospital: why we need a purpose-built paediatric hospital in Munster

A child-focused hospital: why we need a purpose-built paediatric hospital in Munster

'We have tripled our number of wards over in the last five, six, years, but those are wards which aren’t designed to cater for the needs of children'

Mon, 22 Nov, 2021