“On the 1st January 2023, I was incredibly honoured to take up the post of Master of the Rotunda Hospital. I would like to start by acknowledging the incredible work of Prof. Fergal Malone over the previous seven years who had guided the hospital through the Covid Pandemic and the Cyber Attack on our Electronic Medical Records, while all the time ensuring that the hospital moved forward on multiple fronts. The approval for the Critical Care Wing Development was also secured during Prof. Malone’s term as Master.
One of my principal responsibilities will be to ensure that this Critical Care Wing is delivered over the next seven years.
My first year as Master has been an incredibly exciting, challenging and rewarding year. We have delivered 8,442 babies during the year and have cared for almost 10,000 pregnant women, in addition we have cared for almost 1,700 babies in our Paediatric Service. Our perinatal mortality rate, and in particular our perinatal death rate in women at term is a huge credit all the staff. The rate of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy is at a record low with a rate of 0.71/1000 births. These tragic events can happen despite the best efforts of all involved in the clinical care of women and while I am delighted to be reporting such excellent figures, I readily acknowledge that these numbers can vary
year on year.
In terms of Gyneacology, we have had more than 3,700 women who required inpatient/day case surgery and now have the busiest Gynaecology Service in Ireland. We receive almost 1,000 new referrals a month but our waiting lists continue to be managed well, with no woman waiting more than 12 months to be seen. We are particularly focused on those women who wait longer than 9 months and are working towards achieving the Slaintecare targets of 10 weeks for an outpatient appointment.” – Prof Sean Daly, Master of the Rotunda Hospital.
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