Members of the Pregnancy Loss Research Group attended the 43^rd Annual Pregnancy Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in San Francisco, California from 6-11 February 2023.

The Pregnancy Loss Research Group is currently inviting applicants for a PhD Scholarship funded by Féileacáin (The Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Association of Ireland). The project is titled ‘The Coronial Investigation into Perinatal Deaths – impacts on Coroners, bereaved parents, healthcare professionals and the community’.

The successful candidate will be working under the supervision of Professor Keelin O’Donoghue within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and in collaboration with the project members from the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre and the School of Law.

Led by Professor Keelin O’Donoghue, researchers from the Pregnancy Loss Research Group at Cork University Maternity Hospital and University College Cork and University of Galway are examining workplace experiences of people who have had a pregnancy loss. The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has commissioned the PLACES (Pregnancy Loss in Workplaces) project to establish whether policy interventions are required in the workplace to better support people following pregnancy loss under 24 weeks’ gestation.

On Wednesday, 01 March 2023, Professor Keelin O’Donoghue and Dr Daniel Nuzum delivered a webinar titled “Recurrent Miscarriage and Termination of Pregnancy for Fetal Anomaly: Current challenges and future directions” to members of the UCC Medical Graduates Association.

On 21 February 2023, Dr Laura Linehan presented at an online webinar on “Early Pregnancy Loss Care”, hosted by the Regional Centre for Nurse and Midwife Education HSE South (South East).

In January 2023, the National Women and Infants Programme (NWIHP) and Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI) launched 12 updated Clinical Practice Guidelines in Obstetrics & Gynaecology.