Hospital reviews need reform to ensure patients get 'real answers', according to legal expert 

Health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has been briefed on the situation, a spokesman said. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Hospital reviews for death or serious injury to newborn babies need to be reformed to ensure parents get real answers, a Cork legal expert has said.

There are widespread concerns around Portiuncula maternity unit in Galway, which is now subject to separate reviews into the care of nine babies over the last two years. They include two cases of still-birth babies in 2023.