Expert: Identify needs before building hospital

CHILDREN’S needs must be clearly identified before building starts on Ireland’s new national paediatric hospital, the head of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has warned.

Dr Jane Collins, chief executive of the London hospital, said that while specialities needed to be centralised, children were best cared for at home.

“You need to decide how you want to provide care before you decide what kind of building you need to deliver that model,” she said.