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National Maternity Hospital
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
Chronic inability to build anything big in the State is baked into the system
New Oireachtas committee needs continued failure in big projects if it is to function effectively for its members
National Maternity Hospital bill projected to reach 10 times original cost
Minister for Health expected to bring final business case for project to Cabinet after HSE examine submitted tenders
Rotunda Hospital gets additional HSE funds to resolve dispute that left it facing projected €6m deficit
Hospital chairman argued it was being penalised for increasing activity and treating more women
‘Injecting yourself daily is difficult to navigate at work’: Managing fertility treatment while working
Meath woman Lisa McGee says being open with managers about her experience alleviated stress
Even the word ‘miscarriage’ seems to suggest the mother is somehow at fault
A taxing cycle of hope and dejection is a routine part of life for so many, playing out quietly in homes and workplaces across the country
Court dismisses maternity hospital worker’s damages claim over thumb injury
Patricia McNevin failed to prove employer was negligent, says judge
Boy (12) with celebral palsy secures interim settlement of €3.8m over Holles Street birth
Agreement reached after mediation and without an admission of liability from National Maternity Hospital
The first babies of 2025: Bradley, Rowan and Naoíse
Maternity hospitals – and at least one home – were busy overnight with deliveries of new babies
Deirdre Lundy: Describe myself in three words? Noisy. Naughty. Genuine
‘I’m the oldest. It has totally defined me. I’ve been mom since I was six years old’
Pipeline of new hospital development projects not sufficiently strong, Varadkar says
Former taoiseach and minister for health says about 500 additional beds need to be provided annually to keep up with population growth
National children’s hospital ‘car crash’ set to be repeated with maternity hospital, Dáil told
Aontú leader claims building, fit-out tender as ‘half-baked’ as contract for children’s hospital and that Government is ‘incinerating taxpayers’ money’
UCD professor develops monitoring device that could help prevent stillbirths
FeMo is a foetal monitoring device that allows expectant parents and clinicians to keep a close eye on a baby’s movements in the womb
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