Sick children face 4-year wait list at Crumlin
More than 16,000 chronically ill children suffering from heart, bone, and sight problems are being forced to wait up to four years for vital hospital treatment. Figures from the National Treatment...
View ArticleHSE investigates ‘catastrophic failure of incidence management’ at Crumlin
The Health Service Executive has launched an investigation into how 18 children were wrongly identified as being at the centre of a contamination scare over a medical scope at Our Lady’s Children’s...
View ArticleIndo editorial: Hospital needs to win back parents’ trust
OUR Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin has serious questions to answer as to how it managed to misinform 18 families that their children were at risk of contacting a dangerous bug, only to row back...
View ArticleWaiting times at children’s hospital ‘unacceptable’
The length of time some children remain on waiting lists at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin, is “absolutely unacceptable”, according to a consultant paediatric cardiologist who works...
View ArticleHospital chief receiving €30,000 allowance from shops on campus
The States’s largest children’s hospital, Our Lady’s in Crumlin, has been paying its chief executive a top-up allowance of €30,000 per year funded from the profits of shops on the campus. The allowance...
View ArticleCrumlin and Rotunda fundraising bodies say no money is spent on executive...
The fundraising bodies attached to Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin and the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin have moved to reassure the public that none of the money they raise goes in...
View ArticleCrumlin hospital board to discuss top-ups
The board of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin in Dublin is to discuss top-up payments to senior executives at its monthly meeting next Wednesday. The topic will also be raised at upcoming board...
View ArticleCrumlin to seek pay rise for hospital chief executive Lorcan Birthistle
The board of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin last night stated its intention to “pursue directly” the matter of a pay rise for the hospital’s chief executive with the HSE. The hospital’s chief...
View ArticleHospital says patients unaffected by delays in getting genetic test results
The national centre for medical genetics at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, has said there is no indication that any patients suffered adverse consequences as a result of delays in...
View ArticleChildren waiting two years for MRI scan at Children’s Hospital
Sick children are having to wait up to two years to have a MRI scan carried out at the State’s largest paediatric hospital because of a lack of resources. Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin is...
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