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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 11 December, 2019
Hospitals granted 190 extra beds in bid to tackle winter pressure
An initial tranche of 83 beds have been approved for opening.
# emergency-departments - Tuesday 26 November, 2019
'Failing Ireland's children': Hospitals postpone surgeries due to virus, flu and vomiting bug outbreaks
Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin hit out against the Taoiseach today stating that waiting lists for children are “quite shocking”.
# emergency-departments - Sunday 25 August, 2019
Children who swallowed foreign objects accounted for over 2,000 hospital attendances since 2015
These figures were released to TheJournal.ie under the Freedom of Information Act.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 7 August, 2019
Limerick Hospital worst offender for lengthy emergency department waiting times for over 75s
Nationally more than 1,000 people over the age of 75 faced emergency department waiting times of more than 24-hours every month so far this year.
# emergency-departments - Friday 15 March, 2019
People warned to not drink too much this weekend as surge of alcohol-related injuries expected
The HSE has said patients may face longer waiting times at emergency departments due to an increase in people attending.
# emergency-departments - Tuesday 22 January, 2019
Significant increase in homeless children attending Temple Street hospital last year
Mary Lou McDonald has accused Leo Varadkar of ‘normalising child homelessness’.
# emergency-departments - Saturday 22 December, 2018
'Wasteful, inefficient, horrendous': 30,000 people waited longer than 24 hours on hospital trolleys this year
The figures were released to Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly who called them “appalling and unacceptable”.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 6 December, 2018
HSE wants to see patients as quickly as possible this winter - but admits it has no targets to do so
The executive published its €30m Winter Plan for 2018/19 today.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 18 July, 2018
Doctors say emergency departments are 'death zones' due to overcrowding
The Irish Medical Organisation has said that additional resources are needed immediately.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 29 March, 2018
Around 3,000 cancers diagnosed in hospital emergency departments every year
Over three in every four cases diagnosed in emergency departments are at an advanced stage.
# emergency-departments - Monday 12 March, 2018
'It's absolutely deplorable': Record-breaking 714 people on trolleys in Irish hospitals this morning
University Hospital Limerick saw the highest figures today, with 80 patients awaiting a bed.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 28 February, 2018
30 hours on a trolley in Kerry: 'I witnessed an elderly woman being shielded with towels by relatives'
John Paul O’Connor says he was shocked by what he witnessed at University Hospital Kerry last week.
# emergency-departments - Friday 19 January, 2018
The government vowed to stop it, but 10,000 elderly people had to wait in A&E for more than a day
The HSE’s Service Plan for 2017 set a target that anyone aged 75 years and over entering an ED would be discharged or admitted within 24 hours.
# emergency-departments - Monday 8 January, 2018
Private hospital beds to be used to ease Emergency Department overcrowding
Many emergency departments are experiencing very high numbers of patients presenting at hospital.
# emergency-departments - Friday 5 January, 2018
Hospital consultant: 'I'd like to dispel a few myths for people about overcrowding'
It’s a hospital overcrowding problem that has been decanted into the Emergency Department, writes Dr Anthony O’Connor.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 4 January, 2018
Open letter to Simon Harris: 'Our dad provided good service to Irish State but ended up on a trolley'
His last days were prefaced by an extended period of unnecessary suffering in the Emergency Department of his local hospital.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 15 November, 2017
Hospital breakdown: 9,206 elderly people forced to wait over 24 hours in Emergency Departments
The HSE’s Service Plan for 2017 set a target that anyone aged 75 years and over entering an ED would be discharged or admitted within 24 hours.
# emergency-departments - Sunday 15 October, 2017
The HSE is working on an app that will tell you how busy your local emergency department is
A prototype of the app will be available by this November.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 22 March, 2017
Older people ending up in hospital due to inappropriate prescriptions
People over the age of 65 are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of medicine.
# emergency-departments - Saturday 21 January, 2017
'If this many people were dying in another way, there’d be war over it'
What do doctors and nurses want done to tackle hospital overcrowding and record numbers on trolleys? More beds, for starters.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 4 January, 2017
Patients describe nurses 'red in the face' from work and guilt of seeing elderly on trolleys
Over 600 people are still on trolleys in Ireland’s hospitals today, the second highest figure ever recorded.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 7 December, 2016
Long delays at children's emergency departments due to 'dramatic' spike in viral infections
The three children’s hospitals in Dublin have asked families to go to GPs where possible.
# emergency-departments - Saturday 12 November, 2016
Children's hospitals tell people to stay away due to "unprecedented demand"
Three hospitals in Dublin have issued the appeal.
# emergency-departments - Sunday 6 November, 2016
The doctor revamping emergency departments in the US has some advice for Irish hospitals
“The patient doesn’t care who pays a salary or what title you have. People on the frontline need to be integrated in the decision making process.”
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 19 October, 2016
Alan Kelly wants state access to private hospitals to avoid 'hell in our emergency departments'
Simon Harris is considering the move, but said it wouldn’t be straightforward.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 4 August, 2016
Heroin the number one drug for hospital admissions as 'legal high' use grows
A new psychoactive substance has also been shown to be on the rise.
# emergency-departments - Tuesday 3 May, 2016
Irish nurses are abused so often that many don't bother reporting it
INMO’s 97th Annual Delegate Conference kicks off tomorrow morning.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 13 April, 2016
Study tracking the 20 people who attend the Mater emergency department most finds most are men, all are unemployed
This group of patients often have psychosocial, substance misuse and/or chronic illness issues.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 16 March, 2016
Self-harmers need to be seen in hospital, there's a plan to make that happen
There’s a new plan to ensure people who self-harm get the help they need.
# emergency-departments - Friday 22 January, 2016
Elderly woman spends 30 hours on a chair before being moved to trolley at Beaumont
Hospitals are also reporting a surge in people presenting with flu-like symptoms.
# emergency-departments - Friday 8 January, 2016
‘Sensible people are putting their health at risk’ – Patients going to GPs when they need emergency treatment
Meanwhile, doctors are being balloted on industrial action at University Hospital Limerick.
# emergency-departments - Tuesday 5 January, 2016
Varadkar to nurses: Planned strike will compromise patient safety
The INMO strike will see rolling two hour stoppages at emergency departments on 14 January.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 10 December, 2015
'It's absolute bedlam' - nurses' strike set to go ahead as 372 reported on hospital trolleys yesterday
The INMO believes there is “a tolerance of emergency department overcrowding”.
# emergency-departments - Friday 7 August, 2015
Stay away from Cork University Hospital, it's "exceptionally busy"
Unless they have to attend CUH, patients are being asked to seek treatment elsewhere.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 19 March, 2015
Car crashes into emergency department of University Hospital Waterford
The car crashed in to the entrance yesterday evening.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 14 January, 2015
"A poor example": Varadkar heavily criticises Martin over emergency department crisis
The Health Minister said no one wants to sort out the overcrowding crisis more than he does.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 8 January, 2015
Leo Varadkar 'needs to stop being a commentator'
The Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has slammed the Health Minister in the wake of the hospital overcrowding crisis.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 7 January, 2015
'I'm sick to death of this problem' - Varadkar speaks out on A&E crisis
The Health Minister said the problem is going to get worse next week.
Irish hospitals aren't the only ones dealing with an overcrowding crisis
It’s a very similar story in England.
# emergency-departments - Monday 5 January, 2015
Hospital overcrowding: Calls for Ireland to poach nurses from UK and Australia
A record number of people are now waiting for beds, with the INMO saying industrial action is likely due to ‘chronic overcrowding’.
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Many people who planned to attend religious services to mark Easter over the coming days will be unable to do so as a result of the restrictions.
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