Dr. Rhona Mahony:

Infrastructure in obstetrics really matters because we need to transfer patients really quickly from one unit to another. In the design of the new hospital in Elm Park, a big part of that was the clinical input to ensure that when a woman arrives into the hospital, she can get to the labour ward quickly, to theatre quickly and her baby can get to the neonatal unit quickly. There is an idea of a hot core where patients who require it can be transferred really quickly throughout a building. Infrastructure is very important in the provision of obstetric care.