Renal Medicine & Acute Kidney Injury- Tallaght Hospital is already the largest unit in the DMHG Acute Stroke Tallaght Hospital currently provides tertiary stroke service for southwest Dublin & wider Dublin midlands area where it accepts referrals and provides telemedicine support Acute Cardiology a principal provider of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention the Hospital plans to develop this further in line with its clinical service strategy 2016-2018 Endocrinology- Tallaght Hospital & St James’s have developed a fully integrated approach to care of diabetes and endocrine conditions known collectively as Trinity Endocrinology Rheumatology - Tallaght Hospital have been looking at ways of improving patient pathways and has implemented a bone and joint server with orthopaedics and HSCP’s which includes interventional ultrasound Respiratory Medicine in addition to providing a comprehensive respiratory service to our catchment area Tallaght also is a national referral centre for airways disease sleep medicine & interstitial lung disease Gastroenterology/Advanced Endoscopy- the Hospital has the 3rd busiest unit nationally and was the first to implement capsule endoscopy for small and large bowel. The hospital continues to develop pancreatic cystgastrostomy and related procedures Microbiology at Tallaght provides the Irish diptheria reference lab and our microbiologist is the ECDC diptheria lead for Ireland. We also provide a pseudomonal antibodies reference lab service for Ireland Chemical Pathology the Hospital Lab provides a clinical trace element service which accepts samples from around the country. We are the sole trace element centre within DMHG and indeed the Dublin hospitals National Centre for Pelvic & Acetabular Fractures National Centre for Retroperitoneal Sarcomas National referral base for minimally invasive resection of bowel tumours –TEMS National referral centre for Liver tumour resections Regional Centre for Malignant Melanomas Pancreatic & Hepatobiliary Diseases Regional Centre for Vascular Surgery Renal Medicine & Acute Kidney Injury- Tallaght Hospital is already the largest unit in the DMHG Acute Stroke Tallaght Hospital currently provides tertiary stroke service for southwest Dublin & wider Dublin midlands area where it accepts referrals and provides telemedicine support Endocrinology- Tallaght Hospital & St James’s have developed a fully integrated approach to care of diabetes and endocrine conditions known collectively as Trinity Endocrinology sleep medicine & interstitial lung disease National Centre for Pelvic & Acetabular Fractures Pancreatic & Hepatobiliary Diseases