The Children's Hospital in Tallaght in Dublin is to reopen tomorrow morning, but not with full acute services.
According to Children’s Health Ireland, the hospital will be redirecting critically ill and critically injured children to the Emergency Departments at Crumlin and Temple Street.
Tallaght will not be dealing with paediatric surgical inpatients.
In March, acute services for children were temporarily relocated from Tallaght to Crumlin and Temple Street due to Covid-19 to help support their services.
CHI said tonight that the reopening tomorrow of acute services at Tallaght had 'accelerated’ some service changes.
"We are accelerating some of our original plans to consolidate specific services (in-patient surgery, neurosurgery, day surgery) and to use a city-wide approach across Crumlin, Tallaght and Temple Street for other services, such as, access for medical admissions," CHI said.
The children’s hospital at Tallaght had been due to reopen last Monday.
When it opens at 8am tomorrow, the service will provide a 24/7 emergency care unit, medical inpatients, day case surgery, medicine, x-rays and outpatients.
The service is due to move towards a new outpatient and urgent care centre facility opening at Tallaght in 2021, as part of the new National Children’s Hospital structure.
