Maternity services review deferred after resignation

A review of maternity services in the West triggered in part by the death of Savita Halappanavar has been shelved.

The decision, confirmed yesterday by the HSE’s West/North West Hospitals Group, comes in the wake of the resignation of group chairman Noel Daly earlier this month after it emerged he had a 50% stake in the consultancy D&F Health Partnership — which carried out the review.

The Hospitals Group said consultation on the future of maternity services in the region will now be subsumed into a national review of maternity services currently underway.