A Follow-up Event to Picking Up the Threads, Remaking the Fabric of Care. In 2019, the Coroners (Amendment) Act became law, having started out as a Private Member’s Bill introduced by Clare Daly while still a TD. This new law made all maternal deaths subject to mandatory inquests. The Elephant Collective, a network of educators,…
Irish Medical Council, fitness to practice, Dr David McMurray.
Last Monday evening, we saw a swift conclusion by the Irish Medical Council to a fitness to practice hearing of the obstetrician, Dr David Mc Murray, who had principal responsibility for the care of Tracey Campbell Fitzpatrick in St Luke’s Hospital Kilkenny on Easter Sunday 2016.McMurray has been found guilty of professional misconduct. After giving…
Picking Up the Threads Exhibition,
European Parliament, Brussels 24th January, 2023 Responding Ethically Kevin Ryan, our artist who has done the charcoal portraits of Tatenda Mukwata, Geraldine Yanku, and Nayyab Tariq, and Martina Hynan, our artist who did our first eight portraits, all on the walls here tonight, have given us something extraordinarily important: the portraits take us immediately to…
European Parliament Building, Brussels, Exhibition of the Elephant Collective 24th January, 2023
We are a group of educators, midwives, midwifery students, families, birth activists, artists, and lawyers who have been directly impacted by maternal deaths in Ireland and who have deep concerns about our maternity services and the lack of reproductive justice for women. From 2014, the Elephant Collective began to shape art work for a series…
How Irish Maternity Services Are Failing Women and Families and Why the Irish State Refuses to Confront Realities
Elephant Collective Briefing Paper June 2022 The death of Tatenda Mukwata and the conclusion to Karen McEvoy’s inquest On 21 April 2022, Tatenda Mukwata died in University Kerry Hospital[1] very soon after giving birth to her fourth child. Her baby girl survived and is healthy. Tatenda, in her early 30s, had been living with her…
Maternal deaths in Ireland: Tracey Fitzpatrick.
On the 24 February last, Bernard Fitzpatrick, Tracey’s widower, and James and Pauline Campbell, Tracey’s parents, stood on the High Court steps after the HSE had apologised in full to the family forTracey’s death which occurred on Easter Monday 2016. Tracey died just a few hours after giving birth to her son Max in St…
The Elephant Collective
The Elephant Collective, a group of educators, midwives and student midwives and birth activists, formed in 2014 with the aim of raising public awareness of the tragedy of maternal death in Ireland, the need for legislation to ensure an automatic inquest following all maternal deaths•the need for vastly improved disclosure of hospital and HSE reporting…
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The Elephant Collective, Birth Activists 