Coombe Hospital

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

Pregnant Senator calls for partners to be allowed attend maternity appointments

Eileen Flynn says same rules should apply in all hospitals amid variations in access

Coombe master must resign after ‘serious errors’ in vaccine scandal, board told

Prof Michael O’Connell ‘no longer commands respect of colleagues’, consultant says

Vaccination of family members at Coombe was ‘consensus decision’ – report

Medical Council to review findings of report into vaccine controversy at Dublin hospital

Public’s loss of faith in fairness of vaccine rollout must be addressed

Analysis: ‘Queue jumping’ and lack of transparency compounding anger over progress

Non-frontline HSE staff in Offaly get Covid vaccine to avoid ‘wastage’

HSE says it uses a ‘reserve list which is activated when surplus vaccine is available’

Lack of trust causing women to put their lives at risk, CervicalCheck warns

Recruitment difficulties jeopardise plans to transfer lab work from the US to Ireland

‘It hurts when my mum is reduced to the colour of her skin in Ireland’

New to the Parish: Sara Abraham arrived from India in 2006

Covid-19: Almost 800 people outside top two priority groups have been vaccinated

Government officials working on who will be vaccinated in sixth ‘key workers’ group

Vaccinated Coombe hospital family members offered second dose

Dublin maternity hospital carried out second round of vaccinations over recent days

Coombe begins investigation into vaccination of family members of staff

Dublin maternity hospital holds independent review given ‘serious nature’ of incident

HSE to compile report into non-frontline staff receiving vaccines

Minister to meet chair of Coombe after family members of staff given ‘spare’ Covid-19 jabs

Donnelly insists clear protocol in place on vaccines after Harris comments

Minister urges colleagues to come to him with questions after criticism over Coombe controversy

Regulator receives 81 reports of suspected Covid-19 vaccine side effects

Joint pain, nausea, fatigue and headache among reactions reported to Irish regulations

Hospitals in south and southwest getting lion’s share of Covid vaccines

Rollout under scrutiny after families of staff at Coombe hospital given leftover doses

Ex-master of Coombe Hospital seeks inquiry over Covid vaccine row

Chris Fitzpatrick stresses ‘transparency, equity and accountability’ in eyes of public

Coombe vaccine usage symptomatic of rollout issues

Hospitals have previously had to make up their own rules for allocating supplies

Women who go private to give birth more likely to have Caesarean

Study suggests women going private are ‘risk-averse’ and want continuity of care

Maternity services: ‘Nobody has seen Covid and flu together yet – that’s the scary part’

This year the Rotunda is looking at the possibility of making flu vaccine available at ante-natal visits

Study will examine if lockdown impacts level of allergies among newborns

1,000 babies born between March and May will be looked at

Has lockdown reduced the number of premature babies? This doctor thinks so

Covid-19 restrictions have meant a healthier lifestyle for pregnant women, studies suggest

Covid-19: Pregnant women report significant rise in anxiety

Coombe hospital study found women were least concerned about their own health

Fintan O’Toole: We must not allow coronavirus pandemic to rob us of grief

There is no such thing as mass death – people die one by one and each is unique

The Coombe unlikely to be moved to new site at children’s hospital ‘for years’

New master of maternity hospital believes move will not happen in his seven-year term

Coombe hospital obstetrician appointed HSE clinical lead for abortion

Services are available in 10 out of 19 maternity units, and through 347 GPs in the community

‘Heavy onus’ on Coombe to provide information on mother’s death

Karen McEvoy died of suspected sepsis after giving birth to healthy girl

Coroner flags Savita guidelines ahead of McEvoy inquest

Counsel ‘should study protocols’ before hearing into mother’s death after giving birth

CervicalCheck: Longer wait for smear test results possible as lab exits programme

Capacity may not be sufficient to clear backlog left as MedLab ends involvement

Reporting of inquest into mother’s death ‘extremely important’

Karen McEvoy (24) died on Christmas Day last year one week after giving birth

Couple claims key documents were omitted from hospital file

Complaint to be made to Data Protection Commissioner about National Maternity Hospital

MedLab to stop accepting new smears in bid to clear backlog

HSE to have new smears tested abroad as CervicalCheck agrees HPV testing with MedLab

Health warning on Garda stats unlikely to be lifted before 2022 - CSO

PAC hears improvement on crime data to take ‘number of years work’ from gardaí

Children’s hospital without maternity facility ‘risks catastrophe’

Former master of Coombe will warn PAC of dangers of proceeding without co-location

Children’s hospital to proceed despite ‘significant failings’

Key flaws were cost underestimation and failure to control overrun, PwC finds

Simon Harris accused of misleading Dáil over cervical cancer claim

Two-thirds of 80,000 backlog of tests due to decision to offer free out-of-cycle smears

Death of woman from sepsis examined by three separate inquiries

‘Serious questions to be answered’, says National Women’s Council of Ireland director

Woman (24) who died a week after giving birth had sepsis, says coroner

Karen McEvoy’s partner calls for inquiry into her death in Naas hospital on Christmas Day

Families of women who died in childbirth left in the dark, says midwife

Partner of Karen McEvoy, who died on Christmas Day, not given ‘any information’

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