'The HSE said that the quality and safety of maternity services “is of utmost importance” and pointed to low mortality rates among pregnant and labouring women in Ireland'
This on the same day as we hear of the case of Nicola Keane who took her own life and that of her infant 1/

Ensure that there are mandatory inquests into all maternal deaths. Today I offer my condolences to Nicola Keane's husband and family.
Many thanks to all those campaigning for improvements in maternity care Safer Births Ireland Birth Rights Alliance AIMS Ireland
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The Health Service Executive (HSE) has apologised to the family of a 34-year-old nurse with severe postnatal depression, who killed her baby son and took her own life in Dublin in 2020. Nicola Keane's husband, Darren Coleman, read a statement afterwards | rte.ie/b/1449324

Our thoughts are with the Keane and Coleman family...

Basically Tatendas family are being denied access to the external review of her death because it needs to be given the ok by the people/staff/unit it's reviewing YOU COULDN'T ACTUALLY MAKE ITUP #opendisclosure ?
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When does Open Disclosure actually mean Open Disclosure? Ann Murphy great article, thank you for your continued highlighting these issues. Stephen Donnelly is your department happy with this situation, the family are being denied access into external report into her death?

The Elephant Collective would like to extend our sincere condolences to Aoife's family, no family should have to endure what they have, thinking of you all tonight.

We are community midwives, #ofcourse we will treat you with dignity and respect and care for you and your baby, with the compassion and reverence you deserve. You are not a number to us. We are community midwives, and we will love your journey as much as you do #homebirth

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published a few days previously and he never asked to see the list. (Had he actually asked for the list and seen the details, he would indeed have seen a trend his advisers told him didn’t exist). 90 days. That is some length of time to be kept waiting for answers.

Tomorrow will be the 90th day (!) since I first started asking the Stephen Donnelly and Department of Health to explain how he got advice about a list of 21 dead babies whose names he could not have known because it was a list first referenced in an Irish Examiner article only

Safer Births Ireland in yet another call for yet more information from Stephen Donnelly and his officials at the Department of Health about yet another aspect of Ireland’s maternity services: this time in relation to babies’ skulls being broken at birth - irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4135…

A short thread about 38 mostly avoidable serious incident hospital baby deaths in Irish maternity units, which will be in tomorrow's Irish Examiner - irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4129…

You know you have hit one of Stephen Donnelly ‘s raw nerves when . . . he won’t answer ANY questions about what he told RTÉ in December ‘23 when he claimed he had “advice” about 21 dead babies whose names he could not possibly have known as he did not even know who they were.

What dealing with @donnellystephen, the Department of Health and the minister's special advisers can be like. I am three MONTHS into asking the same questions, over and over, and I am getting nowhere. docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

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