Country’s ‘best maternity service’ voted on

EXPECTANT mothers have voted Portiuncula Hospital in Co Galway as providing Ireland’s best maternity service, according to the latest ratings statistics from the online Rate my Hospital service.

The figures show, however, that two of the three leading Dublin maternity hospitals — the Coombe and Holles Street — are not even in the top 10.

The maternity statistics were based on 9,200 fully completed 23-part online patient surveys carried out over the past 12 months.