Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Coombe Hospital
Girl with cerebral palsy settles court action over birth circumstances for €6.5m
The girl’s parents became alarmed when they noticed the child did not reach certain milestones such as walking
Beds in €1bn HSE capital plan below level needed to cater for growing population
More than 260 hospital beds will be completed this year under infrastructure plan for health
Chris Fitzpatrick: Why not make a midwife ‘master’ of a Dublin maternity hospital?
There’s no reason a master must be an obstetrician, no excuse for the inequalities of a three-tier care system
Only ‘limited assurance’ over hospital’s early warning system of illness in pregnant women
HSE audit finds no record of how many staff at Coombe hospital understood early detection system
‘Your baby has died,’ the nurse told me. The hospital hadn’t a clue what to do next
Thirty-nine years later, we were able to register the stillbirth of our baby daughter Susan on May 13th, 1983
Dr Cillian de Gascun: ‘Notwithstanding what happened in 2018, this is a positive news story’
Paul Cullen talks to the head of the NCSL, Ireland’s new dedicated cervical screening lab, built so that Irish women’s samples no longer need to be sent abroad.
Processing of cervical cancer slides restarts in Coombe after break of over a year
New National Cervical Screening Laboratory plans to process all CervicalCheck slides within five years
Ireland’s first babies of 2023 welcomed minutes after midnight
One of the first newborns of new year, a boy named Harry, was born at 12.03am at the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin
‘We have patients aged 40, 45 or 50 having babies all the time now,’ says outgoing master of Rotunda Hospital
‘About 95 per cent of cases of prenatally diagnosed Down syndrome do terminate’
High Court approves €35,000 payment to mother of baby who died day after birth
The baby’s father died in a road traffic accident three years after the death of his son
Teenage boy settles case over post-birth care for €15 million
Liability was conceded but claims concerning an alleged link to autism were denied
All cervical cancer tests sent to US since cyberattack last December
National Cervical Screening Lab set to begin operations at the Coombe hospital in Dublin later this year
Mother (24) died as a result of medical misadventure, inquest finds
Karen McEvoy died on Christmas Day 2018 a week after giving birth to daughter Ruby
‘Missed opportunities’ to identify mother’s sepsis, inquest hears
Karen McEvoy (24) died on Christmas day, 2018, one week after giving birth
Medical Council took no regulatory action over Coombe vaccine controversy
Leftover vaccines administered to 16 family members of staff ahead of priority groups
The 14-bed Dublin house whose ever-changing group of residents have one thing in common
‘We can all make a difference,’ says founder of home for parents of children in hospitals
Coombe apologises over ‘failings in care’ of mother who died of sepsis
Karen McEvoy (24) had given birth to her third child a week before she died in 2018
Labour of love: Coombe mothers reunite annually to celebrate their babies’ birth
Families celebrate 30 years of friendship formed in the labour ward
Boy settles High Court shoulder injury case for €600,000
Matthew Meehan (12), has balance and coordination issues after forceps delivery
Husband of Coombe-vaccinations critic claims hospital trying to silence her
Hospital seeking to ‘threaten’ consultant Deirdre Murphy, husband writes to Minister
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
The GlossOpens in new window
Read the digital edition of The Gloss magazine now
Family NoticesOpens in new window
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices