Healthcare reform: Maternity service provision in Ireland

Health Policy

Volumn 97, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 145-151

  Kennedy, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Consumers; Health reform; Maternity hospitals; Midwifery led units

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CHILD CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IRELAND; MATERNAL CARE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSE MIDWIFERY;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HOSPITALS, MATERNITY; HUMANS; IRELAND; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDWIFERY; NURSE'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; POPULATION GROWTH; PREGNANCY;

EID: 77956181696     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Burke S. Irish apartheid: healthcare inequality in Ireland. Dublin, New Island; 2009.
2. Consadine M., Dukelow F. Irish social policy, a critical introduction 2009, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin.
3. Devane D., Murphy-Lawless J., Begley C. The invisible woman: maternity care in Ireland. Midwifery 2007, 23(March(1)):92-101.
4. Begley C.M., Devane D. The Practising Midwife 2003, 6(5):10-12.
5. Department of Health and Children. Quality and fairness - a health system for you - health strategy. Dublin: Department of Health and Children; 2001. p. 10.
6. Department of Health and Children. Quality and fairness - a health system for you - health strategy. Dublin: Department of Health and Children; 2001. p. 84.
7. Wren M. Unhealthy state anatomy of a sick society. Dublin, New Ireland; 2003.
8. Commission on Health Funding. Report of the Commission on Health Funding. Dublin: Stationery Office; 1989.
9. Department of Health and Children. Report of the Commission on Financial Management and Control Systems in the Health Service. Dublin: Stationery Office; 2003.
10. Department of Health and Children. Report of the National Task Force on Medical Staffing. Dublin: Stationery Office; 2003.
11. Consadine M., Dukelow F. Irish social policy, a critical introduction 2009, Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, p. 265.
12. Kennedy P., Murphy-Lawless J. The maternity care needs of refugee and asylum seeking women in Ireland. Feminist Review 2002, 73:39-53. 2003.
13. Central Statistics Office. Vital statistics third quarter 2008 - 17th June. Stationery Office; 2009.
14. Central Statistics Office. CSO population and labour; 2004.
15. Barrington R. Health, medicine and politics in the Republic of Ireland. Dublin; 1987.
16. Health Insurance Authority. Annual report and accounts. Dublin; 2007.
17. O' Connor M. Conjuring choice while subverting autonomy: medical technocracy and home birth in Ireland. Risk and choice in maternity care; an international perspective 2006, 109-122. Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, London. A. Symon (Ed.).
18. Kennedy P. Maternity in Ireland, a woman-centred approach 2002, The Liffey Press, Dublin.
19. Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The future of maternity and gynaecology services in Ireland 2006-2016. Report from Institute Sub-Group. Dublin; 2006. p. 8.
20. Force Projections 2006-2036. Dublin: Stationery Office.
21. KPMG. Independent review of maternity and gynaecology services in the Greater Dublin Area. Dublin: KPMG; 2008. p. 8.
22. O'Leary Z. The essential guide to doing research 2004, Sage, London, p. 15.
23. O'Leary Z. The essential guide to doing research 2004, Sage, London, p. 116.
24. Central Statistics Office. Census of population 1996. Dublin: Stationery Office; 1996.
25. Central Statistics Office. Census of population 2002. Dublin: Stationery Office; 2002.
26. Central Statistics Office. Census of population 2006. Dublin: Stationery Office; 2006.
27. Central Statistics Office. CSO population and labour force projections 2006-2036. Dublin: Stationery Office; 2004.
28. Kennedy P. A woman-centred maternity service for the North Eastern Health Board. International Journal of Consumer Studies 2008, 32:27-33.
29. Condon D. Report of the Review Group on Maternity Services in the North Eastern Health Board 2000, North Eastern Health Board, Kells.
30. Kinder P. Report of the Maternity Services Review Group to the North Eastern Health Board 2001, North Eastern Health Board, Kells.
31. Begley C, Devane D. Research progress report: fifteenth research progress status report to the Maternity Services Taskforce and HSE-Dublin North East 1st September 2006-31st December 2006. School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin; 2006.
32. School of Nursing and Midwifery TCD. An evaluation of midwifery-led care in the Health Service Executive North Eastern Area. The Report of the MidU Study. Dublin; 2008.
33. Jentsch B., Durham R., Hundley V., Hussein J. Creating consumer satisfaction in maternity care: the neglected needs of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. IJCS 2007, 31:18-134.
34. Department of Health and Children. Quality and fairness: a health system for you (2001). Dublin: Stationery Office; 2001.
35. O'Connor M. Emergency: Irish hospitals in chaos 2007, Gill and MacMillan, Dublin.
36. Harding Clarke M. The Lourdes Hospital enquiry: an inquiry into peripartum hysterectomy at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda 2006, Stationery Office, Dublin.
37. Kinder P. Report of the Maternity Services Review Group to the North Eastern Health Board 2001, NEHB, Kells, p. 35.
38. NHS Involvement Works the second report of the Standing Group on Consumers in NHS Research. NHS Executive. Winchester; March 1999.
39. KPMG. Independent review of maternity and gynaecology services in the Greater Dublin Area. Dublin: KPMG; 2008. p. 5.
40. KPMG. Independent review of maternity and gynaecology services in the Greater Dublin Area. Dublin: KPMG; 2008. p. 7.
41. KPMG. Independent review of maternity and gynaecology services in the Greater Dublin Area. Dublin: KPMG; 2008. p. 8.
42. KPMG. Independent review of maternity and gynaecology services in the Greater Dublin Area. Dublin: KPMG; 2008. p. 9.
43. KPMG. Independent review of maternity and gynaecology services in the Greater Dublin Area. Dublin: KPMG; 2008. p. 21.
44. KPMG. Independent review of maternity and gynaecology services in the Greater Dublin Area. Dublin: KPMG; 2008. p. 15.
45. KPMG. Independent review of maternity and gynaecology services in the Greater Dublin Area. Dublin: KPMG; 2008.