National Children's Hospital

The National Children's Hospital was a children's teaching hospital in Dublin, Ireland. Founded as the Institute for Sick Children in 1821, it was the first children's hospital in Ireland or Great Britain and the second oldest children's hospital in Europe. The institution merged with the National Orthopaedic and Children's Hospital in 1884. In 1887 it moved to premises in Harcourt Street, where the hospital remained for over a century until it moved together with the nearby Adelaide and Meath Hospitals to a new co-located hospital campus in Tallaght.

History

The hospital was founded by the surgeon Sir Philip Crampton, together with Sir Henry Marsh and Dr Charles Johnston, on Pitt Street (now Balfe Street) in the Liberties.

References

• History of the NCH at the AMNCH website