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# Hospital overcrowding

Last week
24th September 2023 - 30th September 2023
# HSE's Winter Plan
HSE CEO 'doesn't accept' he was too late in approach to private hospitals on winter beds
Gloster said it isn’t the case that he ‘just picked up the phone and asked for a couple of beds’.
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Sep 27th 2023, 3:51 PM
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September 2023
THE MORNING LEAD
Start talks with private hospitals now to avoid disastrous winter, INMO chief to tell Minister
A report by
Eimer McAuley
Medical organisations are to warn Donnelly that by December ‘it will be too late’.
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Sep 18th 2023, 12:01 AM
Sligo woman spent over 24 hrs on trolley in hospital hallway after life-threatening asthma attack
School teacher barely slept and couldn’t shower over four days in an emergency department.
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Sep 17th 2023, 7:00 AM
# Hospital overcrowding
Donnelly: Emergency Department Taskforce will meet next Monday
The Emergency Taskforce was formed in 2015 to tackle emergency department overcrowding.
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Sep 11th 2023, 6:47 PM
This year
2023
# Trolley Watch
Worst August for hospital overcrowding since 2004, sparking fears for winter ahead
The INMO is of the view that the situation in Ireland’s hospitals is not being met with the “urgency or focus required”.
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Aug 31st 2023, 11:44 AM
# Overcrowding
'Winter trolley numbers in May': INMO slam hospital wait times as almost 12,000 without beds
This month’s figures show the worst level of hospital overcrowding seen since the INMO began counting trolleys.
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May 31st 2023, 1:49 PM
# Industrial Action
Limerick Hospital ICU nurses call for two beds to close until more staff are recruited
The nurses, who are members of the INMO, are now taking work-to-rule industrial action.
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May 12th 2023, 11:55 AM
# INMO
'I was punched in the face': ED nurse on why there's no appetite for strike but it may be 'only way'
Dublin-based nurse Moira Wynne said that the lack of homecare for older people is affecting the entire health service.
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May 4th 2023, 10:40 PM
# staffing crisis
More than seven in ten Irish nurses have considered quitting their jobs - INMO survey
Nurses mainly wanted to leave their workplace due to stress, while many also reported experiencing aggressive behaviour.
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May 3rd 2023, 12:23 PM
# Hospital overcrowding
Consultants say staffing plan is needed for €1 billion hospital bed-building initiative to work
The IHCA has said that there is a danger this plan will fall at the first hurdle is it is not accompanied with a time-bound staffing plan.
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Apr 6th 2023, 2:00 PM
# Hospital overcrowding
Tánaiste says governance and management issues within overall HSE need evaluation
The organisation is concerned that those in cancer treatment will put off contacting their cancer teams due to fears of being admitted through EDs.
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Jan 11th 2023, 8:54 PM
# Hospitals
HSE clinical chief says asking hospital staff to work across weekends 'not sustainable'
Dr Colm Henry said there were 248 people on trolleys awaiting admission last night.
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Jan 9th 2023, 1:16 PM
# winter surge
Immunologist says stronger advice on mask-wearing needed amid surge in respiratory viruses
Professor Christine Loscher told The Journal that the Government “missed a trick” in not issuing stronger advice sooner.
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Jan 7th 2023, 12:05 AM
# Overcrowding
Minister says patients that could be treated in minor injury units are turning up in A&E Depts
Stephen Donnelly says having more senior decision makers on site over the weekend will ramp up hospital discharges.
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Jan 6th 2023, 3:37 PM
All time
# Overcrowding
Number of patients on hospital trolleys hits highest level since pandemic began
Today’s trolley figures have returned to similar pre-pandemic figures hit in 2019.
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Dec 13th 2021, 4:44 PM
# University Hospital Limerick
'Something has to give': INMO asks Health Minister to intervene at overcrowded Limerick hospital
Members say that UHL had 52 patients on trolleys this morning, despite gaining more than 110 new beds since January.
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Jul 28th 2021, 5:27 PM
# Trolleys
Over 53,000 patients went without beds in Irish hospitals in 2020, INMO says
The organisation said hospital overcrowding is “unacceptable at the best of times, but it is doubly so when dealing with a contagious virus”.
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Dec 31st 2020, 2:28 PM
Voices
Dr Anthony O'Connor: History matters, but the record numbers on trolleys should trump commemoration debates
Why are we fighting the battles of the past rather than honouring the ideals of the Republic?
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Jan 8th 2020, 4:55 PM
# Trolley crisis
Harris summoned before emergency Health Committee meeting as 621 people wait on trolleys
The INMO has called on the HSE to implement five new measures.
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Jan 8th 2020, 12:21 PM
# Hospital overcrowding
'A national scandal': 2019 was the worst year on record for hospital overcrowding as 118,000 went without a bed
Over 1,300 of the patients were children younger than 16.
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Jan 2nd 2020, 7:00 AM
# INMO
Worst November on record for hospital overcrowding as 9,679 wait on trolleys
The INMO has attributed to problem to understaffing and low pay levels.
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Dec 2nd 2018, 9:28 AM
Voices
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.
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Jan 5th 2018, 7:00 AM
# Hospital overcrowding
'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.
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Jan 21st 2017, 7:25 AM
# Trolleys
Reilly 'acknowledges discomfort and distress' of patients on trolleys
Reilly was challenged by Fianna Fáil TD Billy Kelleher in the Dáil today after it emerged almost 400 people were on trolleys across the country in one day this week.
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Jan 22nd 2014, 2:14 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