The Rotunda Hospital will allow partners of pregnant women to attend appointments from next week.
From Monday, October 25, partners will be able to attend Booking Visit appointments and appointments in their High-Risk clinic.
And from Monday, November 1, they will remove remaining restrictions for partners for other antenatal outpatient appointments.
The Rotunda said they are "looking forward and planning to return to “pre-COVID” access in a safe way for all our patients and their partners."
However, they are "strongly encouraging" patients to attend routine outpatient appointments alone, and "only bring an accompanying partner for occasional visits".
The hospital also said during busy times, partners may be asked to wait outside the building until called to the consultation room.
Visits by children and extended family members is still not permitted.
The hospital also warned that they "may need to change these Hospital access conditions at any time, based on COVID-19 infection rates, episodes of overcrowding, or with other infectious disease outbreaks".
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