Calls for a CUMH chief to protect services

The existing management structure at the country’s newest maternity hospital needs to be replaced and it needs its own CEO and budget to ensure its services are protected.

Dr Peter Boylan, chair of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) needed “a separate governance model” with “a separate CEO” because the existing CEO, Tony McNamara, had lost the confidence of consultant staff.

Dr Boylan said Mr McNamara, had “lost the dressing room” and that “his players no longer support him”.