Call to speed up plans for fetal abnormality scans

Plans to routinely offer all pregnant women a scan to detect fetal abnormalities should not take years to implement, a leading obstetrician has said.

Dr Keelin O’Donoghue of Cork University Maternity Hospital said universal access to anomaly scans could be provided in Cork quite quickly with “a small amount of resource”.

Dr O’Donoghue said in CUMH about 70% of women have access to both a dating and an anomaly scan.