THE National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street has been granted permission to expand after the HSE was told facilities in the hospital were resulting in law suits.
An Bord Pleanala said the hospital can now go ahead with plans to build a six-storey extension.
The HSE approved the expansion in 2008, four years after an internal report told them that inadequate facilities and staffing were a factor in patients successfully suing the hospital for poor birth outcomes. Details of the 2004 report showed that courts were finding the hospital negligent for not adequately monitoring mothers before they are transferred to delivery wards.
The report went on to say that the hospital was exposed to serious financial settlements for "sub-optimal outcomes" for newborn babies.
By Cormac Byrne © Herald.ie 2008
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