IPN 2022 October

Children’s Health and Wellness in Ireland

Paediatric healthcare in Ireland is currently undergoing a revolution

Children’s Health Foundation is working to support sick children and their families in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) hospitals, Crumlin and Temple Street, and urgent care centres Tallaght and Connolly. We raise vital funds to support sick children and their families in CHI hospitals and urgent care centres.

Children’s Health Ireland was formed January 1st, 2019, following the enactment of the Children’s Health Act 2018 in November 2018. This provided for a dedicated board, appointed by the Minister for Health, to take over responsibility for services currently provided by Dublin’s three children’s hospitals, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, and the National Children’s Hospital, Tallaght. Latterly an urgent care centre in Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown joined under Children’s Health Ireland’s governance, this is in operation today and will serve as one of two urgent care centres supporting the new children’s hospital, along with Tallaght hospital. Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) governs and operates acute paediatric services for the greater Dublin area and all national paediatric services, some of which are on an all-island basis.

In addition to this, a new state-of the art paediatric hospital is being built in Dublin city at the St James

site. This hospital will form the centre of a hub-and-spoke model which will provide care for every single child all over Ireland. The new children’s hospital is the central cog of the National Model of Care for child healthcare in Ireland.

Childhood illness in all its forms is persistent, indiscriminate, and often devastating. As many of the children who pass through the doors of CHI sites every day have rare and complex conditions that are life-limiting or life-threatening, Children’s Health Foundation know all too well that the burden of disease can have a significant impact on a child and their family.

Children’s Health Foundation is the largest fundraising charity in Ireland supporting sick children. From the funding of cutting-edge equipment and technologies to the refurbishment of critical hospital facilities, Children’s Health Foundation is committed to supporting the provision of world class care for children in need. Ensuring that patients continue to have access to the very highest

standards of care, world-class facilities, and benefit from the most up-to date research that will change young lives for the better.

This can only be achieved through supporters’ funding, bringing real long-term impact for sick children and their families. From understanding disease progression in children with cystic fibrosis, to providing tailored treatment options for children who have been diagnosed with cancer, these funds will allow Children’s Health Foundation to invest in the innovative research programmes that will make each day easier for those children battling chronic illness, enable us to provide state-of- the-art equipment and treatment programmes, and allow us to offer supports to children and their families.

Sona has partnered with the Children’s Health Foundation

since 2019 as one of their charity partners. This October, Sona will launch a Golden Ticket campaign in aid of Children’s Health Foundation to support the life-saving work of CHI hospitals and urgent care centres. A golden ticket will be hidden inside a product from the Sona Children’s range.

During this October and November, Sona will launch a Golden Ticket campaign in aid of Children’s Health Foundation to support the life-saving work of CHI hospitals and urgent care centres. A golden ticket will be hidden in the packaging of one Sona’s products. Whoever finds the golden ticket will win ¤1,000 in cash, and will also trigger a ¤30,000 donation from Sona to Children’s Health Foundation. For more information, visit www.childrenshealth.ie/sonagolden-ticket and or visit www. Sona.ie