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Let's Clear up Some Misunderstandings – C4KH Replies CONNOLLY FOR KIDS HOSPITAL GROUP (C4KH) REFUTES ARGUMENTS PUT FORWARD IN FAVOUR OF ST JAMES BY THE NATIONAL PAEDIATRIC HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD AND THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL GROUP BOARD. Let’s clear up some misunderstandings about the new children’s hospital project… C4KH Replies in Right hand column. Questions by Answers by NCH Comments by Connolly for NCH management to their Kids Hospital group to the Management own questions Q&As of the NCH management • The New children’s • WRONG! The McKinsey Is there any hospital has been Report’s principal room for designed to meet requirement for the expansion at projected child site for the new the campus at population growth Children's Hospital was St James’s and unmet clinical "Space". The design of Hospital? need. the new Children's Hospital on the St James's site is • The campus at St constrained by the James’s Hospital has limited space available. in excess of 50 acres The new hospital is of land. 12 acres are required to establish being made available “breadth and depth of for the new children’s service ”-specialist and hospital and the site sub-specialist has been designed paediatric expertise for future expansion. and sufficient numbers of patients to ensure excellence of care and • The new children’s outcomes. hospital design is based on meticulous • WRONG AGAIN! St. healthcare planning James’s is 48.13 acres which will result in a in total (stated in 1 facility which can NPHDB Panning provide for very application), 10 acres significant expansion of which is leased to (25-30%) in delivery Trinity College and 38 of healthcare. acres leased to the Beyond this, a further Board of St. James’s 20% expansion Hospital, almost all of capacity has been which is already built identified outside of on. The NCH will be on the current building 12 of the 38 acres. footprint. • We understand that internal 'expansion' would require decanting of service such as pathology, pharmacy, educational facilities etc. The expansion capacity of 20% for future lateral expansion (as advised by Martin & Clear) is grossly inadequate. Toronto Children's Hospital has doubled in size every 10 years since its foundation in the 1950's. Clinical space at Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin has increased by 75% in just the past 15 years. The only, and narrow,entry/exit points (one at either end of the campus) are a major hazard both for effective hospital function, patient safety and future construction need. How can you • There are a number • WRONG! The Rainbow build a of outdoor areas at Garden is on the children’s the new children’s ‘sunken’roof of the 4th hospital if hospital, including the floor and is surrounded there are no Rainbow Garden on all sides by four outdoor which is the length of additional areas? Croke Park. floors(15.3.m high,with • The development of no view of the outside the hospital on the St world other than the James’s Campus will sky). It is not in any result in a greater way comparable to area of publicly Croke Park as the 2 accessible open NPHDB claims. It is in spaces and green two separate halves areas, with a higher each with approx 0.3 standard of design acres of usable space. and quality of The Meadow Garden, to materials than the north, is currently exists on approximately one acre the campus, or in the in size and is the main exisiting children’s area designated for hospitals. future expansion of the hospital. Have you • Access for families at • WRONG AGAIN! While considered the campus at St some new 970 spaces the access James’s Hospital will be provided in the needs of NCH underground car families – The design of the new park, (at enormous should you children’s hospital has expense) it will result not be recognised the need of most in only a net gain of locating it at parents to access the 400 spaces on the Connolly hospital by car and ample entire campus. 675 Hospital parking has been provided spaces for patient and where there is for families based on visitors (27 of which unlimited current and projected future are outside the parking for demand, with treble the emergency families and current available parking at Department) is grossly staff? the existng three children’s inadequate for a major hospitals in Dublin. There children’s hospital. will be 1,000 car parking Public transport is spaces in the new children’s rarely an option for sick hospital and An children, over 90% of BordPleanála has whom access hospital adjudicated that 675 of by car. If the Coombe these spaces will be Maternity Hospital reserved entirely for were ever to transfer to families. The parking the site, not a single system will allow families to extra parking space will reserve spaces ahead of be provided. arriving to the hospital and specific car parking spaces • It is ludicrous to boast are also planned for that the parking being emergency parking outside provided for families at the Emergency Department. the St James's will be treble the current available parking at the existing three children's hospital's in Dublin - as Temple Street Hospital doesn't even have a car park, no specific parking allocation for children’ s families exists at Tallaght. Crumlin in 3 2010 had 480 spaces. Its Development Plan called for an increase to 980 spaces - at Crumlin alone. • The proposed NPH has the smallest parking allocation of any recently built children's hospital with only 2.0 spaces(patient and staff) per bed - Melbourne Children's Hospital, opened in 2011, provides 6.8 spaces per bed and the Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, opened in 2015, provides 4.4 spaces per bed. Access for staff at the • GROSSLY INADEQUATE campus at St James’s PARKING! The 312 new Hospital staff spaces under the The St. James’s Hospital NCH will be shared with Campus Smarter Travel the adult hospital staff. Programme is up and The adult hospital is running and, in accordance losing >600 surface with planning guidelines has spaces to make way for ambitious targets to reduce the NCH. The targets staff required to reduce staff car dependency and for • Car dependency. St staff to use public James’s Hospital is transport are so centrally located in ambitious that they have Dublin and has more never been achieved or public transport links imposed in any major than any other hospital acute-care hospital in the in the country. The world (8%of staff may inspector’s report from have a car space). An BordPleanála stated • An Bord Pleanála that: “There is nothing received no evidence to on file to indicate that indicate that the public this (is) not achievable transport network could or deliverable’. meet the needs of staff. Many staff commute • Public Transport at the from satellite towns in St James’s the Greater Dublin Area. HospitalCampus Many work shift hours There are Dublin Bus when public transport is routes through the not available. Lack of 4 campus and along the parking has huge streets immediately implications for adjacent to the campus. recruitment and The Red Luas line has retention of professional three stops serving the staff and therefore of campus: James’s, Fatima effective working of the and Rialto, and that Red campus hospitals. It is a Luas line is soon to be very serious problem – connected to an and a major reason why expanded Green Luas the NCH should not be line serving the north built in the inner city. and south of the city, and is also to connect to Connolly Hospital the Maynooth rail line has(Dolphin Report, p57) commuter service at dedicated slip road Broombridge. The Red access (off M50/N3 Luas line connects the interchange), bus site to nearby Heuston services x 12, 2 on site, Station where a number no parking restrictions, of rail commuter walking distance from services from the south- Castleknock train station west of the GDA (on Dublin-Sligo terminate. It also mainline) and a helipad connects the campus to at ground level is Connolly Station where possible. The Clear Dart services and diesel Martin planners Report commuter services (p8) lists regional buses serving the south-east, stopping at the nearby the north-east and the Blanchardstown north-west of the GDA Shopping Centre and a pass through. It also separate staff access via connects the site to Waterville Rd linking ‘park and ride’ facilities from Snugboro Rd. at the Red Cow and Underpass access from Cheeverstown, the St Blanchardstown village James’s Hospital Campus can, the Report states, Smarter Travel be made available via Programme has recently Mill Rd for local access. introduced free parking for staff at these • "The inspectors point facilities. There are two regarding unfettered DublinBikes outlets on access and unfettered the campus currently car parking in my view and a third just outside conflates location the existing Rialto Gate specific constraints with Entrance. more generic national, regional and local • Access and parking at a (authority) policy, with site at Connolly Hospital the latter assumed by The assertion that the Inspector to trump unlimited parking would the former. Considering be available at Connolly constraints, it was (or any other site) is acknowledged by the untrue. To quote the applicant (National 5 inspector’s report from Paediatric Hospital An BordPleanála: “There Development Board) that is a flaw, in my opinion, the limit of 2,000 car in the argument put parking spaces was forward by some of imposed by Dublin City those who advocate a Council due to concerns greenfield site adjacent relating to prevailing to the M50.
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