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Neurosurgery

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The Children’s Neurosurgical Centre (CNC) is based in Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street and is a national centre for excellence providing care to any child in Ireland from 0-16 years who requires neurosurgical care.

The CNC provides care for our patients in collaboration with the other clinical specialities in CHI at Temple Street, with our colleagues across CHI and in Beaumont Hospital, St Luke’s Hospital Radiotherapy Services, the Central Remedial Clinic, Clontarf and the National Maternity Hospital, Holles St.

Contact us

Call this line if you have a query about your child’s stay in the hospital such as date of admission.

Our services

  • We carry out approximately 800 neurosurgical admissions and over 550 neurosurgical procedures each year
  • We are one of the busiest paediatric neurosurgical centres in Ireland and the UK
  • We see over 1400 outpatient appointments each year

Conditions we treat

Neurosurgery is the medical speciality concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of disorders or trauma which affect the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves and extra cranial cerebrovascular system.

Meet the team

Our support staff

Health and social care professionals

Here are the list of health and social care professionals that your child will come into contact with while in CHI at Temple Street:

  1. Physiotherapy
  2. Occupational therapy
  3. Speech and Language Therapy
  4. Dietetics
  5. Neuropsychology
  6. Social work
  7. Music Therapy
  8. Hospital School Services
  9. Play Therapy
  10. Chaplaincy

Neurosurgery clinics

Contacts:

Neurosurgery welcome - CHI at Temple Street

For healthcare professionals

CHI at Temple Street referral information

Urgent referrals are seen on the same day.

Other referrals from GPs and Secondary Care Paediatricians are accepted via Healthlink

New referrals for outpatient review are within 4 weeks.
Contact a member of the neurosurgery team via the main hospital switchboard 01 8784200

Neurosurgery Referral to CHI at Temple Street

Please complete the required areas below and email form via healthmail only to: neurosurgery.calls@childrenshealthireland.ie

Please ensure you contact Neurosurgery registrar/clinical nurse specialist to discuss the patient and to inform them of the referral.

Emailing this form alone without contacting neurosurgery by phone does not constitute a referral and will not be followed up.

Referral pathway

Non –urgent referrals: please see referral pathways and clinic list

Education

Paediatric Neurosurgery Outreach Education Programme

The Neurosurgical Department at Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street, Dublin is delighted to present a national outreach multidisciplinary education programme to the regional paediatric departments across Ireland. This initiative was successfully piloted with 5 hospitals in the Saolta Healthcare Group in conjuction with their Centres for Nurse and Midwifery Education (CNMEs) from September 2021 –June 2022 and the national roll-out commenced in September 2022. To date the programme has been delivered in 16 regional hospitals.

The education programme involves delivery of a bespoke study day in paediatric neurosurgery to healthcare professionals from acute and community services caring for children to each regional hospital with a paediatric unit. In this collaborative programme with the local Centres of Nurse and Midwifery Education and Clinicians content is tailored to each units’ requirements and local teams contribute case presentations for discussion and learning. Presentations and workshops are delivered in by a neurosurgeon, an advanced nurse practitioner, a clinical nurse specialist and the service co-ordinator.

The objectives of the programme include providing a quality relevant learning opportunity that increases both theoretical and practical knowledge and building on and developing networks between this speciality service and regional healthcare professionals. Accreditation: NMBI CEUs 6 & RCPI CPD 6.

For further information please contact: Emma.holohan@childrenshealthireland.ie

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