A pro-choice group is urging the Medical Council to act quickly to implement the recommendations of the inquest into Savita Halappanavar.

The jury returned a verdict of death by medical misadventure and endorsed the coroner's nine recomendations, central to which is a call for the Medical Council to lay out exactly when doctors can intervene to save the life of the mother.

31-year-old Savita Halappanavar died from septicemia at Galway University Hospital last October, following a miscarriage.

Cathleen Doherty from the Abortion Rights Campaign said the Medical Council should implement the recommendations urgently to make sure doctors can do their jobs, without fear of prosecution.