HSE ‘failed to enforce Savita reforms’

The head of one of Ireland’s leading maternity hospitals has claimed the HSE has failed to enforce reforms called for in the aftermath of Savita Halappanavar’s death, insisting dangerous services and staff gaps remain.

Master of the Rotunda, Dr Sam Coulter Smith, made the allegations in a clinical report for the facility and before an update report due out later today is set to say local progress has been made at University Hospital Galway.

Writing in the Rotunda report, Dr Coulter Smith said despite the high-profile nature of the tragedy two years ago, “services and staffing levels in the maternity sector” remain at crisis point.