Patients need to hear ‘sorry’ much sooner

Joan Mulcair’s harrowing evidence last week at the inquest into the death of her baby daughter Caoimhe shows how quickly trust between patients and hospital staff can break down.

Limerick City Coroner’s Court heard that the nurses at St Munchin’s Regional Maternity Hospital went quiet and did not give the family any information when Caoimhe was brought to the special care unit immediately after her birth in 2009.

It was only at the ...