Set for demolition but Temple Street voted best acute hospital

A CHILDREN’S hospital due to be demolished as part of the plan to create a single new national facility for children has been voted the best acute hospital in the country.

Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin, which is to be replaced by the new national children’s hospital, came top of a league based on votes by parents and patients on the Rate My Hospital (www.ratemyhospital.com) website.

While the ranking, which is based on the standard of medical and support care for patients, might be viewed as good or bad news in the context of the replacement plans, one aspect of the voting is indisputably ominous — the hospital ranked second worst in the country when it came to availability of car parking.