Prevention better than cure for €1.7bn National Children’s Hospital hospital

It is not too late for the design of the National Children’s Hospital to be amended to reduce the projected €1bn overrun on the cost of construction, says Stephen Donnelly.

THE National Children’s Hospital is breaking world records for all the wrong reasons. It will not be the biggest hospital ever built, nor the fanciest. But, per bed, it will cost more than twice as much as the most expensive hospitals anywhere.