Construction work has begun on the new Children's Hospital Paediatric Outpatients and Urgent Care Centre at Connolly in Dublin.

Redevelopment work has also started at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dun Laoghaire.

The new Paediatric Outpatients and Urgent Care Centre at Connolly Hospital, together with the new children's hospital on a campus shared with St James's Hospital, and the second Paediatric Outpatients and Urgent Care Centre at Tallaght Hospital, is part of the ongoing programme of work to transform children's healthcare and to deliver improved clinical outcomes for Ireland's sickest children and young people for future generations to come.

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The facility at Connolly Hospital will provide local access to urgent care for children in the Greater Dublin Area. The centre will support primary and community care through the provision of general community and paediatric clinics, including developmental paediatrics, multidisciplinary care for children with chronic stable conditions and other outpatient services. The centre is projected to deal with 25,000 urgent care and 15,000 outpatient attendances every year.

The name for the new children's hospital and the two centres will be called Phoenix Children's Health.

The new hospital development at the National Rehabilitation Hospital will see the existing ward accommodation replaced by a new fit for purpose block of 120 single ensuite rooms. There will be integrated therapy spaces, a new sports hall, hydrotherapy unit, a temporary concourse as well as clinical and ancillary spaces. In addition, links to the existing building will ensure full integration between the new development and the existing hospital on the site.

(CD/LM)