Staffing in maternity services is in crisis with ‘severe lack of confidence and under-investment’ in hospitals

There is a severe lack of public confidence and a chronic under-investment in the Irish maternity services, the Master of the Coombe has said.

Dr Sharon Sheehan, Master of the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital, also said it was “completely unacceptable” that only some of our maternity hospitals offered foetal anomaly screening.

Dr Sheehan was speaking at a patient safety conference yesterday, hosted by the State Claims Agency.