The National Treatment Purchase Fund said it had suspended all insourcing work at the public hospital since April 11th.

Micheál Martin said there needs to be an ‘exhaustive’ review of unnecessary hip surgeries at two Dublin hospitals.

CHI was established in 2019 to govern and operate paediatric services in Ireland, and currently operates Temple Street, Crumlin and Tallaght hospitals. It will also operate the new National Children’s Hospital upon completion.

The HSE said he was not aware of a reported CHI international investigation into the allegations

The HSE chief was commenting following a series of recent controversies involving Children’s Health Ireland.

The children should undergo a standardised independent clinical review and radiological assessment, a report said.

Evan McCurry will also get €250,000 a year for the next four years as part of the settlement against Children’s Health Ireland.

Ms Gladney-Knox said she was not at all reassured by the letter, if anything, it had made her more anxious.

A sitting of Dublin District Coroners Court heard doctors admit they remain baffled how Carlow student, Cillian Gorman, acquired what was described as a “vanishingly rare” blood clotting condition in a sudden and catastrophic manner.

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said that told the board expected the watchdog’s recommendations to be implemented ‘as quickly as possible’.

It leaves the total number of children awaiting spinal surgery procedures at 228.

An audit of hip dysplasia surgeries at CHI hospitals found hundreds of children operated on between 2021 and 2023 did not meet the threshold.

The Taoiseach pushed back against whether the Government was partly to blame for governance failures at Children’s Health Ireland.

Hundreds of children which received hip surgeries between 2021 and 2023 did not meet the threshold for the procedure.

Sandra Kuzmecka (13) from Glenkeen Park, Fairgreen, Portlaoise, Co Laois, died at Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street in Dublin on August 26th, 2023

The HSE audit also revealed that targets for reducing waiting lists for children for spinal surgery are not being met

The boy was brought to a doctor with what his mother thought was an ear infection but the family later discovered he had an inoperable brain tumour.

The acting chief executive and interim deputy chief executive of Children's Health Ireland are both stepping down from their roles.

Children’s Health Ireland did not entirely use a bumper allocation in 2019 for child spinal surgeries.

The hospital board will tell the Public Accounts Committee that ‘all possible contractual levers are being applied’

A Waterford teenager suffered fatal injuries after being struck by the wing mirror of a van moments after getting off a school bus near her home two years ago, an inquest has heard

Darren Coleman's wife Nicola Keane died by suicide in October 2020

Mary Lou McDonald said around 250,000 hospital appointments were cancelled last year, including 800 child chemotherapy appointments.

It showed that only 25 per cent of consultant paediatricians would not refer an adolescent for bariatric surgery such as a gastric by-pass.

Jack Doran was only 15 when he died two days after a brain tumour was finally discovered

The inquest heard that the little girl had been brought to the hospital’s emergency department on October 31st 2022 after she had been unwell for a number of days.

OrthoKids Ireland, organised by parents of children under the care of Mr Green, warned their children have been “waiting months” for life-saving treatment due to Mr Green’s absence

The girl has Spina Bifida and underwent an operation on her spine at Temple Street, which was not successful

A High Court judge has said that the health of a young girl at the centre of a legal row over the disclosure of medical records in relation to her spinal surgery should be "to the forefront"

Dr David Moore said the review was carried out so information on clinical standards of care and governance would be available should they be requested

Some families have criticised the terms of an HSE-commissioned probe into surgeries at Children’s Health Ireland hospitals

Eilish Hardiman told members of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health that she did not receive correspondence discussing the use of the devices.

The details of the alleged letter emerged during Leaders’ Questions on Wednesday.

One group, the Scoliosis Advocacy Network, has called on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to become directly involved in shaping the review.