{"id":153677,"date":"2025-11-22T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153677\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:59:10","slug":"national-childrens-hospital-is-to-ditch-half-of-its-private-rooms-for-consultants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153677\/","title":{"rendered":"National Children\u2019s Hospital is to ditch half of its private rooms for consultants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Change in planned use was triggered by new contracts for consultant doctors\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Professor Shane Higgins, Master of the National Maternity Hospital. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/higg.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Professor Shane Higgins, Master of the National Maternity Hospital. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The new \u20ac2.24bn National Children\u2019s Hospital is set to ditch half of its paid-for and allocated private rooms for consultants, the Irish Independent can reveal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Eight costly private clinics were planned and budgeted for in the paediatric hospital, but fewer than four will be needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Change in planned use was triggered by new contracts for consultant doctors Professor Shane Higgins, Master of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,3414,4593,8655,2120,61,60,1421,6189,29096,3415],"class_list":["post-153677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-department-of-health","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-health-insurance","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","tag-labour-party","tag-national-childrens-hospital","tag-sinn-fein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}