Calls for Health Minister to publish report on rising costs of clinical negligence claims

Maternity reform advocates hope report will recommend how to help reduce the number of hospital mother and baby deaths and injuries every year.

Maternity services reform advocates have called on Health Minister Stephen Donnelly to publish a report into how the State plans to slash its annual €3.8bn-plus clinical negligence bill.

It is hoped that as well as outlining how claims costs could be cut, it will recommend how to help reduce the number of hospital mother and baby deaths and injuries every year.