# Emergency Departments

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# Overcrowding

‘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.

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Jan 8th 2016, 4:00 PM

# Overcrowding

Varadkar to nurses: Planned strike will compromise patient safety

The INMO strike will see rolling two hour stoppages at emergency departments on 14 January.

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Jan 5th 2016, 9:08 PM

# Overcrowding

'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”.

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Dec 10th 2015, 10:20 AM

# Waiting Room

Stay away from Cork University Hospital, it's "exceptionally busy"

Unless they have to attend CUH, patients are being asked to seek treatment elsewhere.

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Aug 7th 2015, 3:55 PM

# Gardaí

Car crashes into emergency department of University Hospital Waterford

The car crashed in to the entrance yesterday evening.

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Mar 19th 2015, 8:47 PM

# HOSPITAL CRISIS

"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.

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Jan 14th 2015, 9:45 PM

# Overcrowding

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.

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Jan 8th 2015, 12:45 PM

# going to get worse

'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.

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Jan 7th 2015, 10:20 PM

# Waiting Times

Irish hospitals aren't the only ones dealing with an overcrowding crisis

It’s a very similar story in England.

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Jan 7th 2015, 12:22 PM

# Trolleys

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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Jan 5th 2015, 10:50 PM

# beaumont crisis

Leo says he'll get a plan to sort out 'chronic' hospital overcrowding

Health Minister Leo Varadkar says he expects the situation in Beaumont to ease this week — but nurses want an ‘emergency’ declared.

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Dec 15th 2014, 5:53 PM

# No longer Bulletproof

Handguns are now the choice of gangland criminals - so more people are dying

A new study published in the Irish Medical Journal has also found that handguns have lead to a substantial increase in the mortality rate from firearm injuries.

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Sep 9th 2014, 3:33 PM

# Overcrowding

Nurses to protest at Drogheda Hospital today

Nurses say overcrowding levels are dangerous.

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Aug 20th 2014, 12:45 PM

# Ambulances

HIQA writes to HSE twice over risks to patients in emergency departments

The issue centred on what the HSE is doing to mitigate the risks to patients who are waiting transfers in EDs to inpatient beds.

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Jun 27th 2014, 6:45 AM

# Emergency Departments

Emergency Department nurses to ballot for industrial action at Mercy Hospital

Staff say they are worried about a lack of staffing at the hospital.

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Apr 14th 2014, 10:03 AM

Voices

Column: After six hours in the waiting room, my little sister's pain reached crisis point

We need innovative solutions to the increasingly dangerous and frustrating problem of overburdened emergency departments, writes Lauren Joslin.

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Apr 9th 2014, 1:00 PM

# RISKY BUSINESS

'HSE says hospital overcrowding is improving, that's not what we're hearing'

The IAEM says the number of trolley inpatients in wards has increased since last year, not decreased.

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Jan 24th 2014, 11:22 AM

# Self Harm

Children hospitalised after self-harming is on the increase

The HSE has said that 960 children aged 10 to 17 years presented to hospital last year with self-harm injuries.

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Nov 20th 2013, 9:20 PM

# Healthcare

Almost 1-in-4 responses to 'life-threatening' 999 calls not meeting HIQA targets

In 65 per cent of cases, ambulances aren’t arriving at the scene within the 19 minute response time set-out by the health watchdog.

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Jul 16th 2013, 7:30 AM

# waiting list

Over 49,000 people are waiting for inpatient or day case treatments

Some 5,829 people are still waiting over 8 months despite the government’s target to ensure no one waits this long for treatment.

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Jul 11th 2013, 4:38 PM

# Healthscare

A&E wards could be shut over looming staff shortages, doctors warn

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine says emergency wards are already stretched, and it’ll get worse in July…

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May 23rd 2013, 8:02 PM

# Health

Minister for Health "winning the war on trolley numbers"

New figures show that there were almost 10,000 fewer people on trolleys so far this year.

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Jul 24th 2012, 1:50 PM

# Overcrowding

Hospital warns of overcrowding crisis - and asks public to stay away

The Mid Western Regional Hospital has said patients should only come to its emergency department in cases of “urgent need”.

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Mar 29th 2012, 11:16 AM

# Health

Mater Hospital issues capacity alert after ‘exceptionally busy week’

An alert was issued to staff at the Dublin hospital earlier today after it reached full capacity. The alert level has since been lowered with some pressures in the emergency department still being experienced.

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Mar 1st 2012, 4:00 PM

Voices

Column: My night in the emergency department

Hospital staff say emergency departments are in crisis – but how is the experience for patients? Clare Kleinedler writes about the night she found out…

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Nov 26th 2011, 6:00 PM

# Hospitals

Dept of Health to give €3 million to hospitals - but "crisis situation" remains

The general secretary of the INMO said the money is welcomed – but that Ireland’s Emergency Departments are in a “crisis situation”.

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Nov 15th 2011, 1:28 PM

Voices

Column: ‘The system is sick’ – inside a hospital emergency department

Dozens of patients on trolleys and a handful of nurses struggling to keep up – emergency department nurse Anne Burke tells TheJournal.ie about a system in crisis.

Nov 15th 2011, 7:30 AM

# Protest

Protesters bid to save Loughlinstown emergency department

Emergency 24-hour care at the hospital is due to be suspended, in the same way as in Roscommon.

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Oct 8th 2011, 5:59 PM

# Hospitals

Health service 'reaching breaking point' over doctor shortages

The warning comes as it emerged just 60 of nearly 300 doctors recruited from India and Pakistan have been registered to begin working.

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Sep 7th 2011, 1:09 PM

# Hospitals

Some non-critical facilities to be moved from Galway hospital

Services within the HSE West hospital structure are to be re-balanced in a bid to reduce waiting times at University Hospital Galway, with some non-critical facilities to be moved within the month.

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Aug 31st 2011, 2:47 PM

# Bounce

Trampoline-related injuries on the up

The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine is warning of the dangers of trampolines for children. It’s also advising that you should never drink and bounce.

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Aug 10th 2011, 8:46 PM