Paediatric Services
University Hospital Limerick
St Nessan's Road, Dooradoyle, Limerick, Limerick, V94 F858
Phone: 061 482855
Email: linda.tucker@hse.ie
Internal Directions:
Inpatient services are delivered on Rainbow and Sunshine Wards.
Outpatient services are delivered on the Caterpillar Day Ward at consultant clinics or in Outpatients 3.
To find Outpatients 3: Enter the hospital through the Outpatients Department, turn right and go to the end of the long corridor.
At the end of the corridor, turn right and go through two sets of double doors.
The dietitians office is straight ahead. It is to the right of the paediatric clinic and within the same unit as the diabetes department.
Opening hours:
8am to 1.30pm and 2pm to 4pm
Monday to Friday
About Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics
Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics work with people who are nutritionally at risk because they are unwell and/or undergoing treatment that affects their nutritional status and their ability to eat or they have a medical condition that requires dietary intervention.
About Paediatric Services
Dietitians in University Hospital Limerick provide paediatric inpatient and outpatient services to consultant-referred patients for a wide variety of medical and surgical conditions. All referred patients are assessed and a careplan is provided.
Referrals and Appointments
Available to: All paediatric patients
Who needs to refer you: Consultant
How to access this service: E-referral
Special instructions for patients during COVID19
We may ask you to:
- attend a virtual clinic
- wear a face mask/other PPE
- complete a COVID-19 questionnaire by phone before coming to hospital and to repeat same on arrival
- to wait in their car until closer to your appointment time
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