Hospitals say insufficient funding is affecting patient services
Irish Voluntary Healthcare Association says its members are worried about financial sustainability
National Maternity Hospital
All signs point to Budget 2027 not having much room to manoeuvre
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About 150 women turned away for private care by National Maternity Hospital consultants
End of private maternity care in publicly funded hospitals ‘will be a real problem’, says former NMH master
‘I was begging for pain relief but they said I wasn’t dilated enough’: Women query HSE maternity service guidelines
‘I don’t think anyone would say paracetamol is sufficient when it comes to real, genuine labour pain’
HSE clinical director rejects concerns raised by obstetrician about labour guidelines
Former National Maternity Hospital master Peter Boylan described the concept of a latent phase of labour as ‘dangerous’
Women have their say: Public care must improve ‘dramatically’ before private is phased out
Expectant mother in semi-private system says she would ‘beg, borrow and steal to afford private care’ if she had a history of complications
‘I felt nobody had my back’: What the Rotunda row says about public v private maternity care
Mothers and medical professionals share their views as differences between public and private maternity care in the State are brought into sharp focus
Private healthcare and public hospitals
We need a single national health fund if we want to create a health system based on need not income
Eight women under private care by public-only consultants at Rotunda to switch doctors
State’s busiest maternity hospital backed down in dispute over private care
‘To the passersby we were just your average Irish family with two kids splashing, jumping, eating sand’
Innovation programme draws on frontline staff for ways to improve health service
All pregnant women should get continuity of care – not just those who can pay for it
Days of the consultant being on-call for the labour ward from home need to be consigned to history, too
Even before conception, intending parents can boost a baby’s health
Steps can be taken to affect outcome of the pregnancy and long-term health for mother and child
Pregnant rough sleepers, autism charity controversy and a seagull screeching competition
Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan
Five pregnant women forced to sleep rough among those who gave birth at NMH in 2025
Having a baby while living in emergency accommodation one of top five reasons for new family homelessness in Dublin in 2025
Plans to move Rotunda maternity hospital to Connolly in Blanchardstown abandoned
Maternity hospital will instead apply for permission for extension at current Dublin city centre site
Waiting lists: Patients waiting 18 months or more increased in the majority of Irish hospitals in 2025
Across the three waiting list types – inpatient, outpatient, and GI endoscopy – 894,369 people were waiting for treatment last year
Plan to relocate Rotunda maternity hospital to Blanchardstown is ‘some distance in future’
Oireachtas committee told move is based on ‘real patient safety reasons and rationale’ on co-location policy
Construction inflation and labour shortages could hit major health projects, HSE says
Health service to open five surgical hubs and submit planning permission for two hospitals this year
Congenital heart disease: ‘The surgery went well. I’ve done very well as a child into adulthood’
About 500-600 babies are born in Ireland with CHD every year, from simple to quite complex cases
Dublin’s northside needs a maternity hospital that is fit for purpose
The Rotunda is delivering thousands more babies than other hospitals, as plans for its redevelopment have stalled. Meanwhile, across the river in Dublin 4, millions have already been spent on relocating the National Maternity Hospital
Breastfeeding linked with reduced risk of depression and anxiety for mothers, study suggests
Each week of feeding reduced risk by 2% after accounting for other factors, long-term research shows
Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital transferring women as far as Drogheda due to bed shortage
Babies younger than 25 weeks were once not considered viable but ‘now we’re looking at 22-weekers’, says Rotunda master
Couple who had termination after wrongful advice highlight ‘years of extraordinary pain’
Rebecca Price and Pat Kiely were advised to terminate their healthy baby after receiving a misdiagnosis
HSE apologises to couple wrongfully advised of fatal foetal abnormality
Rebecca Price and Pat Kiely were advised to terminate their healthy baby after receiving a misdiagnosis
Almost €150m spent on preparations for new National Maternity Hospital
Design team fees for the project now exceed €36m, Dáil Public Accounts Committee told
Ministers and key hospitals clash over financial controls
Ministers intervene to insist new €200m management system is deployed across voluntary and HSE hospitals
Man (44) settles case over circumstances of birth for €10m
It was claimed that Jonathan Hughes allegedly suffered significant asphyxiation at and around time of his birth
Should every midlife woman be on HRT?
Positivity abounds around hormone replacement therapy, but is it a panacea for all ageing women?
National Maternity Hospital bike shed should not have to cost €100,000, Taoiseach says
Taoiseach says project ‘should be done modestly with very simple structures ... It shouldn’t have to cost €100,000′
Should home births be made more freely available? An obstetrician and a doula debate
A recent HSE audit recommended that no-one who lived more than 30 minutes’ blue light distance from a maternity unit should be allowed to have a home birth
New financial safeguards planned for national maternity hospital project
Government seeks to implement lessons learned from national children’s hospital construction
Final maternity hospital due to switch entirely to electronic records by end of year
Over one million appointments to go live on next version of HSE app, conference told
Builders include provision for €500m in contingency costs for new maternity hospital
New National Maternity Hospital could cost up to €2 billion to complete
National Maternity Hospital says it was ‘coerced’ by HSE into signing service deal
Hospital says service agreements could potentially interfere with executives’ fiduciary responsibilities
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