Spinal Surgery Updates
CHI's Spinal Surgery Management Unit was established in 2024. This Unit's aim is to build a safe and world-class spinal service, which treats children and young people in a timely and patient-centered way. You will find the latest updates from the Spinal Surgery Management Unit using the links below.
Nov. 7, 2024
Service updates
Noticeboard: January 2025
- CHI's Spinal Surgery Waiting & Activity List for December 2024 can be viewed below.
- A Patient Panel for Spinal Services is being formed to improve communication with patients and families from our spinal services, to ensure patients’ voices are heard and valued. Find more information about the patient panel here.
- Recently, six patients have been removed from CHI’s spinal surgery waiting list as they have transitioned to adult services in The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. Four further patients are in process for this care pathway (included in "suspended" figures in CHI's Dec report).
- Find a new information page about scoliosis here
- Meet two inspirational spinal surgery patients, Finn and Helen.
Contact Details: CHI’s Spinal Surgery Management Unit
For spinal service patients and families only.
CHI Spinal Surgery Waiting & Activity Lists
Latest News
- November: Progress update from CHI’s Spinal Surgery Management Unit
- Children's Health Ireland welcomes the publication and findings of Health Service Executive review on the implementation of Scoliosis and Spina Bifida Action Plans 2022 and 2023
- GPs encouraged to use digital forms and X-ray pathways when referring children with suspected scoliosis to Children's Health Ireland
- Progress update from CHI’s Spinal Surgery Management Unit
- Children's Health Ireland to receive new, purpose-built Halo Traction wheelchairs for young scoliosis patients
- Spinal Surgeries Abroad
For healthcare professionals
Attention all GPs:
- Digital scoliosis GP referrals: Send your scoliosis referrals through Healthlink (using the "spinal" drop-down menu for CHI at Crumlin referrals)
- Resource Pack: This pack contains information on the advised approach to take when you suspect scoliosis in a paediatric patient (under 16)
- Minimum Data Set requirements: It is important that all spinal referrals that we receive from GPs contain specific datasets, find more information here.
- Ordering spinal X-ray: In cases of suspected scoliosis, having an X-ray accompany your GP referral letter significantly improves the triage process. See the GP resource pack above for more information.