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THE ST VINCENT’S Hospital Group will have ‘corporate oversight’ of the new National Maternity Hospital when it moves to its new campus, according to the agreement reached between the two hospitals.
The agreement reached in November between the SVHG and the current National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street has been released to the public.
The agreement between the two hospitals over the provision of the new NMH is in the form of a 25-page report by mediator Kieran Mulvey.
The hospital is to be located at Elm Park alongside St Vincent’s University Hospital on the campus owned by the SVHG.
The agreement states that the SVHG will retain a “corporate unitary oversight of all campus utilities and services”.
The report states that this oversight can be achieved providing the SVHG board with assurances that the NMH will be managed effectively, and that:
The appropriate legal, financial, regulatory and risk assessments are up to date and undertaken in accordance with statutory requirements.
This oversight will be further ensured by adding two directors nominated from the current NMH to the board of the SVHG (as well as the new maternity hospital).
“Clinical independence”
The proposed NMH has been mired in controversy since it emerged that SVHG would take ownership of the hospital.
This stems from the fact that the religious order the Sisters of Charity are the principal shareholders in the SVHG.
The agreement states that the SVHG will be the “sole owner” of the new hospital.
The hospital will be operated as a new company: The National Maternity Hospital at Elm Park DAC (limited by shares).
This ownership will be dependent on the Minister of Health holding a “Golden Share” in the hospital, which will allow its reserved powers, constitution and composition to be protected.
Current Health Minister Simon Harris, as well as the current Master of the NMH at Holles Street Dr Rhona Mahony and others have ensured the new hospital would have “clinical independence”.
This is laid out in the agreement under the heading of “reserved powers”, which ensures:
Clinical and operational independence in the provision of maternity, gynaecology, obstetrics and neonatal services (without religious, ethnic or other distinction) in the hospital at Elm Park, Dublin and the provision of medical, surgical, nursing, midwifery and other health services at Elm Park, Dublin, including strategic planning in relation to the development of such services in the future in accordance with developing best practice.
Independence will be further ensured by the retention of the role of the Mastership model at the hospital.
These “reserved powers” will be protected by the “Golden Share” which ensures they:
…shall not be capable of amendment save with the prior written and unanimous approval of all the Directors of the Board and with the consent of the Minister for Health.
Board of directors
As previously reported, the agreement lays out that the board of directors at the new hospital should be made up of nine directors.
Four will be nominated by the SVHG, four will be nominated by the current NMH, and one will be an independent international expert in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
The report on the agreement states that the “appropriate legal mechanisms” will need to be put in place regarding the structure, objectives, role and powers of the new hospital.
There have been significant developments over the new maternity hospital since the report was first sent to Minister Harris in November.
Over 92,699 people signed an online petition calling for the Sisters of Charity to be “blocked” as sole owners of the new hospital, with protests held last week outside the Department of Health.
Following the public outcry, the SVHG board said that it would be reviewing its role in the future of the project.
The chairman of the SVHG board today released a statement ensuring that any medical procedure that is currently legal in Ireland will be carried out at the new National Maternity Hospital.
Commenting on the release of the agreement today, Harris said the boards of both hospitals would be meeting this week and would review progress to date.
He restated the assurance on clinical independence and said that he intended to report to Government on the status of the project by the end of May.
You can view the full agreement here
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Maybe they can now appeal to the british and irish states to release all files pertaining to the Dublin, cavan and monaghan bombings.
Maybe they can appeal to the sas to tell the truth about the murder of two irish children in a graveyard in tyrone.
Maybe they can appeal to the brits to tell the truth about collusion with loyalists.
Maybe they can appeal for an international inquiry into the british state murder of pat finucane and others.
i’m sick of this one sided bullshi t.
Who are the “they” to which you refer
Nesbit and neeson
What about whataboutery?
They’re appealing for the locations of the bodies not the names of their murderers. That’s typical sf/IRA Provo rhetoric, grow up and stop playing the beal bocht we the Irish are always the victim line. Many an evil murdering bazturd was born in our country and they did terrible harm to their fellow countrymen. Let the families have their kin back so the may grieve properly.
ieoinu..
I seek justice for murdered irish men women and children and you attack me personally….what a troll.
Two of our fellow countrymen look for the return of the bodies of our fellow countrymen murdered by our fellow countrymen and you start whinging with the usual ‘what about them, look what they did, blah blah blah’ Then you go on to attack me and call me a troll. How predictable, typical bullish cowardly spiel biased to the point of tedium from a feckless idiot. Troll my hole, you sir are the troll.
fine/mi5 should be helping with the Dublin and monaghan bombings because fine gael/mi5 helped to bomb Dublin and monaghan.
you queen licking troll
The best insult I’ve ever seen on this site. Queen licking troll!
Ooh Baby would you also seek answers on the Enniskillen bombing or the Kingsmills massacre, nobody done time for them two incidents either and they resulted in 21 innocent people dead at the hands of the PIRA.
I suppose troll-licking Queen may have been offensive on a whole new level.
Thompson,
the irish government didn’t bomb Enniskillen nor were they present at the kingsmill massacre.
I never said the Irish govt were involved. I asked if you want to see the perpetrators of those incidents jailed. Yes or no?
This is not about right or wrong
Neither is it about which side was worse
Or who did what to whom
This is about giving families a body to bury in a marked plot like a Christian rather than never knowing what bog or wood or field their loved one is lying in, unknown, uncared for, in unmarked graves.
Well said, best comment of all
These unfortunate people were murdered by armed thugs.
Who?
The kids murdered by the sas?
The men/women/children murdered by the fine gael/brit army?
Dublin and monaghan people murdered by fine gael/mi5
Pauric, the defender of state terrorism, where is your Unionist friend David Thompson, did I miss him here somewhere spitting out his sectarian bigotry?
David Thompson hasnt went away ye know ;-)
Why is this story in the international section?
The journal has foreign stories in the irish section but irish stories in the international.
good, after my protest they decided to move it.
I see they put it back in the international section.
Typical brit media
and it’s back in the irish section………………
Are you sure you’re not just hallucinating?
Why not just turn off your phone/computer and go for a nice relaxing walk to clear your head and calm your little self down?
I think that all the red thumbs are proof positive that the journal is being used and abused by free staters to push a british agenda.
I ask for justice for irish people who were murdered at the hands of the british and I get garda red thumbs.
So Typical.
… I don’t even
i wish someone with a bit more tact would articulate some of the points hidden in your moronic diatribes. You probably are addicted to internet conspiracies too. You do yourself more harm than good. Then again, you might be about 14 years of age.
incase u dont know 99.99% of people in the free state as u call it dont care about the North or its pathethic problems.
Martin, I don’t suppose that you have verifiable figures and research to back that statement up.
Havana cavanagh. Why do you people resort to insult every time someone offers a different opinion to you? Please explain! I’m 39 by the way.
nessbitt and neeson
I think Liam Neesen is a brilliant actor, but i don’t know why he thinks he can get the killers of these poor men to tell because he and Nessbitt asked, interesting…..
nesbitt and neeson allowed themselves to be used, or worse still,
they wanted to be used.
Ooh baby you may be correct but do you agree that it would be a positive event if these bodies were found.
The IRAs only cause in this day & age is a big ego at the end of a gun.Freedom fighters?…..ya rite whatever
Jimmy and Liam where have you been hiding for over the past thirty years or so when Britain were found guilty of Human Rights Violations, when nationalists communities were held hostage within nationalists areas, by fascists and supremacists from within your communities.i.e. Orange Order?
All I want to say is Truth & Reconciliation commission …we need it now for all victims.. This will put an end to the free state partitionist rubbish from Blueshirts/ Fine Gael, where are the guns buried/ Fianna Fáil & Official IRA/ Labour!
Why would these two men have any more influence over information pertaining to missing persons than any of the families, or any other ordinary person? For god sake. Stories like this annoy me. Talk about desperate to plug their tv/movie work.
Janet in fairness neither of these two men need to promote themselves, they are trying in their own way to help grieving families, that’s all I see here.
are there any people in southern Ireland who have an once of pity. most of the disappeared where vunerable souls who could not fight back. and the sods that kidnapped and murdered them wore hoods and carried guns .would u call these men heores????
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