A leading patient support group in Ireland today questioned a review of all recorded cases of misdiagnosed miscarriage in the country over the last five years.

The Children's Minister has suggested the establishment of maternity centres of excellence in the wake of revelations about misdiagnosed miscarriages.

WHAT happened to women under the care of disgraced obstetrician Dr Michael Neary was appalling and should never happen again, said president of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) Dr Paul Oslizlok.

ALMOST a year after the opening of the country’s newest maternity hospital, its gynaecology theatres remain closed, leaving 117 women on a waiting list, some in need of urgent procedures.

TWO consultant obstetricians have won a High Court order overturning as “unlawful” findings of professional misconduct against them by the Medical Council over their 1998 reports about the obstetric practice of Dr Michael Neary at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

A MAJOR report outlining a blueprint for reform of maternity services warns that the number of consultant obstetricians and gynaecologists must double by 2016 to improve patient safety.

BABIES born at night had more than double the death rate of daytime deliveries, according to a survey of thousands of births at a Cork hospital.

Consultants at Limerick Regional Maternity Hospital have reportedly warned that they may be forced to turn pregnant women away because staff levels are too low to ensure safe deliveries.

FEARS of a national maternity crisis mounted last night after consultants in Limerick’s only public maternity hospital warned they may be forced to turn women away because they do not have enough staff to ensure safe deliveries.

BIRTHS to single mothers almost doubled in the decade leading up to 2000, figures released today reveal.