We can only have confidence again in our maternity services by way of a wholly independent, root-and-branch evaluation followed by swift action to effect radical change, writes Victoria White

Another baby has died at a Midlands hospital where the maternity service was recently condemned as neither safe nor sustainable.

A Midlands hospital where four newborns died in similar circumstances over a number of years has lost control of its maternity services after a damning report found it was neither safe nor sustainable.

An especially distressing finding of the report was that highlighted by Dr Tony Holohan where dead babies were transported in the boot of a taxi to Tullamore hospital for postmortem.