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23 Governance Rep ts NMH Annual Rep t | 2020 Regina Melvin, Helen Conlon, Usha Daniels and Noreen McElwee retired from our team after many long years of service to the hospital which was greatly appreciated by ourselves and by patients throughout their careers. We wish each of them many years of good health and happiness in the future. This year in particular, I want to extend my gratitude to all the midwifery and nursing and health care assistant staff for all of their efforts to support maternity, neonatal and gynaecology care within the hospital in the height of the COVID-19 crisis. I want to pay particular tribute to my Assistant Directors of Midwifery and Nursing on day and night duty who are personally supportive to me in my role. The CMM 3's carry a huge responsibility for the management of all of the units and each of them continue to make a great contribution to our team in the last year. My PA Siobhan Flanagan and my HR colleague Lisa Murray and all the HR team carry a large workload, often unseen and I am really grateful for all of their support and professionalism. As health care professionals, we have continued to provide an excellent service in an extraordinary time, providing an essential service to thousands of families during a time of crisis. Each day, staff go above and beyond their duties to support women in what everyone knows is a very stressful time during pregnancy and childbirth or for women having a gynaecological procedure. Infrastructural deficits, especially inadequate inpatient wards, cramped small waiting areas and generally insufficient space within the hospital creates additional challenges for the staff at work in the hospital. The need for the new NMH at Elm Park has never been more urgent. In the meantime on our current site, we continue to provide excellent maternity, neonatal and gynaecology care and it is a privilege to work with my midwifery and nursing colleagues and all the other members of the NMH team. Mary Brosnan Directer of Midwifery and Nursing Mary Brosnan, Director of Midwifery and Nursing (centre), with (from L-R) Clinical Practice Development Midwives Saila Kuriakose, Orla Gavigan, Lavanya Lakshmanan and Lucille Sheehy, Asst. Director of Midwifery and Nursing at the COVID-19 vaccination clinic for staff. There were so many initiatives during the year which demonstrated the hospital teams' ability to adapt services to maintain safe, high quality services and to support staff...