Staff ban ‘puts mums and babies at risk’
The claim was made on the final day of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation’s annual conference, after delegates called for an independent review of staff levels in the sector.
Retired assistant director of midwifery at Cork University Maternity Hospital, Mary Higgins, said recently that national management still expected maternity services to provide the same level of care as before the 2007 recruitment ban.
