Temple Street Children’s University Hospital, is an acute national paediatric hospital. Seven major specialities at Temple Street today include neonatal and paediatric surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, nephrology, orthopaedics, ENT and plastic surgery. The Hospital is also the location for the national centre for paediatric ophthalmology, the National Paediatric Craniofacial Centre (NPCC), the national airway management centre, the Irish Meningitis & Sepsis Reference Laboratory (IMSRL), the National Centre for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (NCIMD) and the National Newborn Screening Centre (NNBSC).
Temple Street cares for 145,000 children per year including 45,000 who attend the Emergency Department (ED) every year. A staff of 85 Consultants and over 950 other full time and part time HSCPs (Health and Social Care Professionals) and other staff deliver care and services.