Dr Karin Zetterstrom, study leader and gynaecologist and obstetrician at Orebro University Hospital in Sweden, said pre-eclampsia could be dangerous to a mother and baby in many ways.

BBC: Pre-eclampsia during pregnancy can be fatal

He returned to the UK and took up work as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Friarage Hospital in North Allerton, Yorkshire.

BBC: Neale was struck off in 2000

Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Jamal Zaidi said the changes were being made "purely on the grounds of safety".

BBC: Eastbourne District General Hospital

Mr Liu, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at City Hospital, Nottingham, urged caution.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Drug may help avoid prematurity

Initially, 42 women who were patients of obstetrician and gynaecologist Rob Jones at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro were asked to return.

BBC: Tower Block at the Royal Cornwall Hospital

Mr Roy Farquharson, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Liverpool Women's Hospital, told BBC News Online that the NOS gene had also been implicated other pregnancy complications.

BBC: Miscarriage gene identified

More than 40 women have been seen in specialist clinics following a review into the work of a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who was suspended at Cornwall's main hospital.

BBC: Women seen over Royal Cornwall Hospital surgeon concerns

The inquest comes amid reports that a request by Savita Halappanavar for a termination of her pregnancy is recorded in the medical notes by the consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who treated her before she died.

BBC: Savita Halappanavar inquest opens in Galway

Of course, Republicans agree, women should have direct access to a gynaecologist or obstetrician (instead of having to see a primary-care doctor first), and of course patients should have guaranteed access to emergency-room treatment and the right to know all the medical options and appeal against an insurer's decision.

ECONOMIST: Health care