Patients and doctors back damning maternity service claim

Patients and doctors alike have backed claims that some maternity services are a danger to women.

Peter Boylan, National Maternity Hospital Holles St clinical director, and Aims Ireland said the system is failing and reform calls have been ignored.

Dr Boylan said consultant and midwife staff levels fall far below international requirements, while Aims spokeswoman Krysia Lynch said pregnant women face a care “geographic lottery”.