Portiuncula hospital is not safe for women giving birth
What the Portiuncula situation tells us is that smaller maternity units are no longer able to deliver appropriate and safe levels of maternity and neonatal care
Portiuncula University Hospital
Stories realted to Portiuncula University Hospital in Ballinasloe, Co Galway
Families at centre of Portiuncula review call into question viability of service
Concern about maternity care is ‘specific to Portiuncula’, Minister for Health says
Inquest hears of ‘considerable failings’ after woman (98) dies after developing bed sore
Veronica Ayres had settled in Sonas Innis Ree Nursing Home, Co Roscommon, after more than six decades in Liverpool
Maternity services across Ireland should be reviewed, expert group urges following Portiuncula report
‘Higher risk’ pregnancy antenatal care to be moved from Portiuncula hospital to other locations
Oireachtas health committee must hear from HSE on Portiuncula maternity services, says Opposition
‘Questions need to be asked now about what exactly is going on here,’ says Labour health spokesperson as 10 reviews ongoing
Death of baby at Portiuncula Hospital leads to new review
Ten reviews ongoing into maternity and baby care at Co Galway hospital
Portiuncula hospital reviews will need to examine three key factors
Without doctor-led management of Irish maternity services, tragic outcomes will recur
‘It’s a sensitive subject in a small town’: Portiuncula maternity services review sparks local concern
HSE is conducting external reviews into delivery of nine babies at Ballinasloe hospital
Bereaved parents were promised changes. So why is Portiuncula Hospital under scrutiny again?
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Woman who lost baby at Portiuncula hospital calls for review to be expanded
Galway woman Elizabeth O’Reilly calls for explanation for pre-natal death of daughter Bláithín
Portiuncula hospital: Hundreds of expectant mothers to be informed by HSE about external reviews into deliveries of nine babies
Health Service Executive seeks to be ‘open and transparent’ regarding external reviews into delivery at the hospital
Portiuncula University Hospital: Not the first time concerns raised about its maternity services
External reviews of delivery of nine babies come in wake of inquiry set up in 2015 around transfer of four newborns to Dublin for neonatal cooling the previous year, a baby’s death and other ‘significant concern’ cases
Portiuncula hospital: External reviews begin following concern over delivery of nine babies
HSE appoints management team to oversee and manage maternity services with immediate effect
Boy (14) with cerebral palsy settles case against Galway hospital for €30m
Settlement by Oran Molloy is largest in a birth injury case in history of State, court hears
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