The HSE’s entrenched attitude to criticism and change is unhealthy

We can only have confidence again in our maternity services by way of a wholly independent, root-and-branch evaluation followed by swift action to effect radical change, writes Victoria White

THE irony is stunning

The HSE has threatened legal action to stall the publication of the HIQUA report into the deaths of five babies at the Midland Regional Hospital, in Portlaoise, because it says staff should have had a chance to defend their good names.