Gynaecology service ‘biggest risk’ in South

A new report on maternity services in the South/South West (SSW) Hospital Group has identified gynaecology services in Cork as its “biggest clinical risk”.

The stark warning, from UCC Prof John Higgins, consultant obstetrician gynaecologist, is contained in the Maternity Services Annual Report 2015, just published.

There were calls in the Seanad yesterday for Health Minister Simon Harris to participate in a debate in the upper house on the crisis that has beset gynaecology services at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH), where almost 4,200 women are awaiting outpatient appointments. Close to 800 women are waiting more than a year and a half.