'Extremely helpful' recommendations for maternity hospitals ‘fully implemented’ after Joshua Keyes death

A baby’s death has resulted in “extremely helpful” recommendations, a hospital chief said yesterday.

Chief executive of the HSE’s Dublin Midlands Hospital Group, Dr Susan O’Reilly, was commenting on the report of the death of baby Joshua Keyes.

He died at the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, in October 2009. The 90-page report into his death contains 23 recommendations.