Maternity hospitals outside Dublin face flood of legal claims

Startling new figures reveal a major disparity in the number of legal claims against maternity units outside Dublin, fuelling further concerns about the state of Ireland’s maternity services.

Figures provided by the State Claims Agency show three times as many clinical care claims were made against maternity units outside Dublin in recent years, despite hospitals in Dublin delivering about 40 per cent of the babies born in Ireland each year.

Last Friday, the ...