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Master wants stand-alone hospital
The Rotunda Hospital, Dublin By Lloyd Mudiwa lloyd.mudiwa@imt.ie The Master of the Rotunda Hospital has said that the hospital would prefer a new, stand-alone maternity hospital on a North Circular...
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Ireland is not the ‘lousiest place to have a baby’
Dear Editor, I am not of a cross disposition, but Dr Juliet Bressan’s article made me cross (‘Delivering her verdict on childbirth’, Irish Medical Times, January 21, 2011,...
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Listening to her Master’s voice
Dr Rhona Mahony, Master of the National Maternity Hospital Catherine Reilly speaks with the Master of the National Maternity Hospital Dr Rhona Mahony about hospital relocation plans, recruitment...
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The same, only different for now
Dr Tony Holohan, CMO Returning from 18 weeks parental leave, Dara Gantly finds that not much has changed in the world of Irish medicine, apart from the prospect of the most radical shake-up of general...
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Rotunda pulls out of home births scheme
Dr Sam Coulter-Smith By Lloyd Mudiwa. A maternity services consumer group has welcomed the Rotunda Hospital’s decision to refuse to engage in the sign-off process of the HSE Home Birth Service. “It...
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Governance concerns ‘not addressed’
Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer — clear failures in management of risk and safety Failures at Portlaoise Hospital Maternity Services have triggered the incorporation of small maternity services...
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Move required away from post-code health service
Not only has the number of women using the maternity services risen, but case complexity — sometimes associated with multiple births — has increased. Anomalies exist, including considerable variation...
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New controls to enhance perinatal morbidity meetings at Portlaoise
Pic: Getty A new governance arrangement has been established within the Obstetric/ Gynaecology Department at the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (MRHP) to augment the perinatal morbidity meetings...
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National Strategy to provide direction
The Department of Health, in conjunction with the HSE, is preparing a National Maternity Strategy that will “provide the strategic direction for the optimal development of safe and high quality...
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Reports of maternity axing are ‘speculative’
Reports suggesting some hospitals in the West are to lose their maternity services are “purely speculative”, the Department of Health has insisted. In the context of the implementation of the...
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UHG maternity unit ‘will need new build’
A review by Ernst & Young has reported that all of the five local HIQA recommendations directly relating to patient care — made in the wake of the Savita Halappanavar case — are either fully...
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Holles St application to be lodged this year
The planning application for the transfer of the National Maternity Hospital from Holles Street to the St Vincent’s University Hospital campus will be lodged later this year, the Minister for Health...
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Decision imminent on Coombe/Rotunda move
Rotunda Hospital A decision on whether the Coombe Maternity Hospital or the Rotunda will move to the site of the new National Children’s Hospital is expected to be made within weeks, IMT has learned....
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Review team announced
Saolta University Health Care Group has announced the membership of the team to conduct the review of maternity services at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe, and of a number of adverse perinatal...
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Connolly needs upgrading if Rotunda is to relocate
James Connolly Memorial Hospital in Blanchardstown would need investment and infrastructural development before the Rotunda Hospital could relocate there, the Master of the Rotunda has said. Speaking...
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WHO recommends the adoption of Irish C-section classification system
Dr Marleen Temmerman The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed the adoption of a system for classifying Caesarean sections originally developed by an Irish obstetrician. The WHO said it proposes...
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29-member maternity steering group named
Prof Michael Turner, National Programme Director for Obstetrics & Gynaecology A 29-member Steering Group to advise on the development of a National Maternity Strategy has been announced by the...
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Rotunda/Coombe moves ‘not linked to local politics’
At an event to celebrate Connolly Hospital Balnchardstown’s 60th Anniversary were Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton TD, Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, T.D. and children from...
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Pathways ‘for high-risk pregnancies’ available
The Chief Executive of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group has said she is now satisfied that maternity services at Portlaoise are safe. “The Clinical Lead has ensured that there are pathways into the...
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IHCA: HSE ‘failed to resource Portlaoise Hospital’
Dr Gerard Crotty, President of the IHCA The HSE failed to resource Portlaoise Hospital sufficiently and to ensure governance arrangements that could “safely deliver the range of acute services to...
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