The report documenting avoidable deaths of children in the care of the Department of Health/HSE over the last decade brings shame on us all and must bring renewed focus on the proposed new National Paediatric Hospital (NPH).

A fresh proposal for the National Paediatric Hospital claims it could complete the facility by the second half of 2016, at an overall cost of €420m.

Health Minister Dr James Reilly has today agreed to an extension of the deadline for the receipt of the report of the Review Group on the National Paediatric Hospital.

A senior consultant has raised concerns that the level of paediatric services in Ireland is not adequate.

THE decision by An Bord Pleanála to refuse permission for the National Children’s Hospital at Eccles Street, Dublin 1, has come as a bolt out of the blue to the development board of the National Paediatric Hospital, government ministers, the HSE and the Department of Health. I don’t like saying “I told you so.”

FORMER HSE chief executive Brendan Drumm has written a book detailing his time at the top of the health organisation.

BUILDING a national children’s hospital at a site other than the Mater could cut development costs by up to €86 million, a new report has found.

THE decision to choose the Mater site in city centre of Dublin was made on both financial and clinical grounds, the Government said yesterday.

Health Minister Dr James Reilly has today denied that a review of the proposed National Children's Hospital is a delaying tactic.

ONE of the more strident sayings in our period of construction mania between 2004 and 2007 was “build it and they will come”.

THE decision to build the National Children’s Hospital on the Mater site in Dublin is the right one, Health Minister Mary Harney has insisted.

A BITTER row has broken out between Health Minister Mary Harney and former chief of the National Paediatric Hospital Philip Lynch over the reasons for his resignation.

HSE PLANS to replace an outdated child intensive care unit described in a report as “a potential risk to patient safety” could be scrapped due to budget cutbacks.

IRELAND’S €800 million National Paediatric Hospital could face significant difficulties unless its planned capacity takes account of the country’s surging under-18 population, experts have warned.

THE lives of sick children will be put at risk if plans to build a national children’s hospital in Dublin city centre go ahead.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney is rushing towards the signing of a statutory instrument which will enable her to establish the development board of the new National Paediatric Hospital.

Management at the Mater Hospital have welcomed the Government decision to locate the new National Paediatric Hospital on the Mater site at Eccles Street in Dublin.