Time for clinicians to be masters at Cork’s maternity hospital

It is unprecedented for consultants to write to hospital management in terms as stark as those expressed by CUMH doctors over gynaecology services, writes Peter Boylan

THERE are many well documented failures in Irish maternity services, which include gynaecology.

The failure to respond to the needs of the more than 4,000 women, some of whom may well have cancer and all of whom need to be seen by gynaecologists in a timely fashion, waiting for appointments at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) is the latest to be brought to public attention, this time by responsible journalism unearthing the concerns of the consultant staff at CUMH expressed in letters to management over a considerable period of time.