You are very welcome to the February edition of the Rotunda GP-Connect. We had a historic opening of our new facility in Hampson House in January were the Tánaiste as he was at that time and Taoiseach as he is today Mr. Micheál Martin enthusiastically opened what we believe is a wonderful addition to the campus of the Rotunda Hospital. We have a new and expanded Paediatric Outpatient Department, two new Maternity Outpatients floors, a modern Colposcopy Suite and additional areas for Perinatal Health and other Allied Health Services such as Social Work, Radiology and Dietetics. This is the first part of a plan to develop significant additional facilities on the Rotunda Hospital Campus which will provide modern Neonatal High Dependency and Special Care Baby Units, an expanded Labour Ward and significant Post Natal accommodation.
The Community Midwifery Service which cares for over 2,000 pregnant woman annually has a detailed piece in this E-zine. The Rotunda is very proud of the fact that this service operates in the community and brings care to the women and families that we serve in locations located across North Dublin from Balbriggan to Finglas and Cabra. We have several midwifery specialists who work within the Community Midwifery Service and deliver the highest quality of care to women both antenally and postnatally. Dr. Fiona Keogh has a very informative chapter on “The Management of Pelvic Organ Prolapse in the Community”. Some of you may know we held an Educational Event here last month were Fiona and her colleagues outlined the management of pelvic organ prolapse and gave instruction in the use of the wide range of pessaries that are now available.
The final part of this E-Zine is on informative list of resources for the Management of Common Feeding problems in Primary care. I hope you will find these useful and there is a QR Code for more information on introducing family meals and weaning new born infants.
Professor Sean Daly,
Master/CEO, Rotunda Hospital.
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