The National Maternity Hospital

The National Maternity Hospital first opened on the 17^th March 1894. The hospital’s founding philosophy was to offer expert maternity care to working class Dublin women living between the two canals. The paucity of good maternity care along with the ravages of poverty and disease had at the time resulted in very high rates of maternity related infant and maternal deaths. Since then, over 400,000 babies have come into the world with the help of the midwives and doctors working in the hospital. 

Today the hospital is recognised as one of Europe’s centres of excellence for maternity, neonatal and gynaecological care within a catchment area that spans Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow (East coast of Ireland) as well as providing tertiary referral services for the whole country. 

The hospital’s philosophy is to provide the highest quality medical, midwifery and nursing care to mothers, babies and their families regardless of their social, economic, religious or ethnic background. The values of human dignity, equity, compassion, justice and advocacy underpin all aspects of our service. As a university tertiary referral hospital we continuously strive to achieve excellence in a caring and healing environment, which values the contribution of each member of staff.

It is the aim of the hospital to cultivate an environment that supports the highest quality of teaching, at both undergraduate and post-graduate level, for midwives, nurses and doctors. As a teaching hospital we foster the development of high quality research in all aspects of female and child health with the aim of improving the maternal and child health of the community, through prevention, health promotion and treatment programmes.

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