HSE refuses to publish maternity report

HEALTH service management have refused to publish a report into chronic capacity problems at Cork University Maternity Hospital.

They claim the document is for “internal management purposes” only.

After the state-of-the-art €75 million facility replaced existing services at St Finbarr’s, Erinville and the Bon Secours private hospital in late 2007, midwifery and nursing representatives raised concerns that the new hospital would be unable to cope with a numbers surge.