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# Overcrowding

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Can the UK's 'elective only hospital' model help reduce overcrowding in Irish hospitals?
13 Oct 2018
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21
'Worst August on record' for hospital overcrowding with almost 8,000 on trolleys
Updated 31 Aug 2018
13.1k
68
Tour groups 'pulling a fast one' are overrunning Cork's English Market
18 Aug 2018
45.0k
52
Patients at A&E should be either admitted or discharged within six hours, not 14 - IMO chief
7 Apr 2018
13.1k
19
Temple Street asks parents to keep children away from emergency department as 14 left on trolleys
15 Feb 2018
23.1k
20
Longer Luas trams introduced this morning in bid to tackle overcrowding issues
7 Feb 2018
29.5k
87
Varadkar doesn't want anyone to face 'indignity' caused by waiting on a trolley
10 Jan 2018
12.4k
107
'Bear with us' says TII as it apologises for 'teething problems' with new Luas Green Line
10 Jan 2018
35.8k
53
More air quality monitoring stations on the way that will give real-time information to the public
10 Jan 2018
6.0k
7
Private hospital beds to be used to ease Emergency Department overcrowding
8 Jan 2018
14.5k
29
Dr Anthony O'Connor: Things we could do to get more people off trolleys
Dr Anthony O'Connor
8 Jan 2018
28.3k
41
'No effort being spared' says Health Minister after trolley numbers reach record high
2 Jan 2018
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123
Surgeries at Cork hospital cancelled for two weeks as flu and 'revelry' make their impact
22 Dec 2017
9.8k
23
Gardaí in Sligo are refusing to operate from their station
20 Nov 2017
22.0k
30
'Detrimental and harmful': There were over 80,000 people on hospital trolleys so far this year
9 Nov 2017
5.1k
21
'Unless the government allocate funds... there is no easy solution': Irish Rail responds to overcrowding complaint
20 Oct 2017
12.0k
44
'Totally unacceptable': Two people spend night on chairs in mental health unit
13 Oct 2017
16.1k
15
Reports of festival goers 'getting crushed' in massive queues on the way in to Longitude
14 Jul 2017
47.5k
69
Holocaust survivors more at risk of developing cancer
10 Jul 2017
12.9k
9
There were over 50,000 people on hospital trolleys in the first six months of 2017
3 Jul 2017
6.7k
43
Patients placed on chairs and beds in corridors of Waterford psychiatric unit
8 May 2017
9.1k
13
These are the most overcrowded hospitals in the country
3 May 2017
30.9k
45
'Groundhog Day' as month begins with 600 people on hospital trolleys
2 Feb 2017
7.8k
29
'If this many people were dying in another way, there’d be war over it'
21 Jan 2017
17.8k
32
'Not a single patient in the building': PAC to investigate €7 million overspend at Tipperary Hospital
19 Jan 2017
20.2k
35
26 dead as gangs behead inmates in Brazilian prison massacre
16 Jan 2017
22.3k
14
Alan Kelly says his prediction of 'hell in our hospitals' has come true
4 Jan 2017
22.0k
91
There has actually been a slight drop in people on hospital trolleys this year
2 Dec 2016
7.1k
35
A Cork hospital is so busy with emergencies it's asking patients to stay away
11 Nov 2016
12.9k
35
Ambulances taking over an hour to hand over patients and get back on the road
17 Aug 2016
12.1k
23
Mers virus transmitted from one 'super-spreader patient' in overcrowded emergency room
9 Jul 2016
18.4k
4
Locked up for years for stealing a handkerchief - Delving into Spike Island's dark past
22 May 2016
34.0k
47
Patients left lying on trolleys while 40-bed unit remains vacant at nearby hospital
20 Apr 2016
16.1k
33
Nurses to be hired "as matter of urgency" to reduce emergency department overcrowding
16 Mar 2016
13.5k
40
Varadkar 'embarrassed and ashamed' by elderly man's death after 12 hours on hospital trolley
23 Feb 2016
23.0k
71
Varadkar defends comments about extra resources making hospitals slow down
8 Feb 2016
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76
Non-urgent surgeries cancelled at Cork and Dublin hospitals
21 Jan 2016
22.8k
56
One of Dublin city's main hospitals is telling emergency patients to stay away
20 Jan 2016
19.0k
28
Thursday's strike action by nurses has been called off
12 Jan 2016
16.0k
28
Here's What Happened Today: Friday
8 Jan 2016
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