Campaign underway to select Chairperson for National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB)

The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) has statutory responsibility for planning, designing, building, equipping, and furnishing the three sites that form the new children’s hospital (NCH) project.

The recruitment campaign is now underway to select the NPHDB Chairperson for this challenging role and will run until 14 May 2021. The successful candidate will play a central role in the delivery of the National Paediatric Hospital Project.

Details of how to apply for the position are available here.

The new children’s hospital (NCH) project, comprises the main hospital on a shared campus at St James’s, and two paediatric Outpatient and Urgent Care Centres at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, and Tallaght University Hospital.

The NCH Project will have a significant impact on 25 per cent of the population, is therefore a government priority, and is the most significant capital investment project undertaken in the healthcare system in Ireland.

It will bring together the services currently provided at three children’s hospitals into a modern, custom-designed, digital, hospital at St James’s campus, to deliver the best care and treatments for Ireland’s sickest children. As well as playing a central role in the provision of excellent paediatric healthcare services, it will also be the primary centre for paediatric education, training, and research in Ireland.

The NCH is now in the major construction phase and the core focus of the NPHDB in this phase of the Project will be on building and equipping the new hospital. The satellite campus at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, is complete and operational, whilst the satellite campus at Tallaght University Hospital is expected to be completed later this year.

Despite the challenges through 2020, the New Children’s Hospital building is taking shape and the core focus of the successful candidate and the Board during this major construction phase will be on building and equipping the new hospital.