Maternity hospital to move to St Vincent’s site

The National Maternity Hospital, which accepts referrals of women and infants from all over the country, is to relocate to the St Vincent’s University Hospital campus in Dublin within the next five years.

Around €150m has been approved in the HSE’s capital plan to allow the project to proceed.

Building is expected to begin in the spring of 2016 and be completed no later than 2018.