Children’s Health Ireland utilise the HSE City West Care Facility for a 6 week Allergy initiative, to reduce its waiting list for Oral Food Challenges by 474 patients

Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) are experiencing similar challenges to all hospitals living with COVID-19 in terms of insufficient space to manage our patient throughput as we adhere to public health measures on social distancing and infection prevention and control guidance.

CHI Allergy Team identified a unique opportunity to vastly reduce the current Day Case waiting list for patients requiring Food Challenges. The use of the City West facility, with the support of the HSE, allowed for an initiative to manage a high volume of patients over a six week period from 7 September 2020. During this period 474 children attended Food Challenge Clinic.