Dr. Adrienne Foran:

It is very patchy. Justin Gleeson, our drug liaison midwife, along with pharmacy departments, the Rotunda and the Coombe, wrote the national document on prescribing to ensure there would at least be consistency on how these women are looked after. He has told me off the record that he gets many phone calls from around the country from people seeking advice and help. These services tend to be centred in the cities. Limerick and Cork have issues. I am sure, however, like all of these issues, it is probably wider. The national guideline was developed in 2013 in order to try to have consistency because the literature on how these women should be managed is conflicting and that can cause many problems.

I am not sure if we can get the data. Dr. Sharon Sheehan said at the start that data is key. Ireland is a small enough country, so we could do concentrated epidemiological research. Getting the data would help us stratify and ensure people are not left out of the system.