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Friday 23 October 2020
The INMO has warned that overcrowding and Covid-19 make for a ‘toxic combination’.
Consultants have said staffing and resource issues are impacting their mental health and compromising patient care.
The journalist who broke the story has published the letter which originally raised concerns.
There have been calls for hospital management to appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee “as a matter of urgency”.
The INMO says its a 9% increase on 2017 – itself a record high – and nearly double the number in 2006 when records began.
The INMO has said the health service “simply does not have capacity to cope” with demand.
Advocates and survivors of mother and baby homes have been outraged at the government’s handling of legislation passed in the Dáil last night.
The IMO has said the situation won’t be due to a “flu crisis”, rather a “failure of policy”.
Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly said the situation is far worse than last year.
The HSE has said it regrets any delays experienced by patients.
The HPRA said that it is aware of complaints made from an Irish hospital regarding the Tautmann UT10 patient trolley.
The 9,091 figure represents a 12% jump from May 2017, and a massive 116% jump from the situation in 2006.
Today there were 485 patients on trolleys with 338 in emergency departments and a further 147 on wards.
Minister of State Jim Daly said increasing ICU capacity is a priority for the government in 2018.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Association has just launched a new trolley watch system – where it counts how many children are on trolleys in EDs.
The Taoiseach said he was speaking as both a doctor and a grandson whose grandmother is “regularly in and out of hospital”.
Nursing representatives met with HSE officials earlier today to see how hospital overcrowding can be reduced.
The move is an attempt to ease pressure on services over the busy Christmas period.
Over 1,000 children are expected to wait for a bed this year.
There’s been an improvement in Dublin, but things are getting worse in other counties.
The Tánaiste made the claim amid ongoing debate about wait times in Irish healthcare.
The figure of 601 is just short of the high of 612 patients on trolleys at the beginning of January.
What do doctors and nurses want done to tackle hospital overcrowding and record numbers on trolleys? More beds, for starters.
He wants private hospital facilities to be used to help ease the pressure on emergency departments in public hospitals.
Siptu members said today that delays of between one and three hours have been observed across the country.
Over 600 people are still on trolleys in Ireland’s hospitals today, the second highest figure ever recorded.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) says it sets a new record.
This morning there were 378 patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals.
The woman, believed to be 103, finally got a bed this morning.
While the numbers on trolleys is down 1% this year, figures for November were described as “particularly alarming”.
There’s a marked difference between Dublin and the rest of the country.
Yesterday there were 20 patients on trolleys at Tipperary General Hospital.
It’s among a rang of rules to help fight hospital overcrowding.
It’s over 10,000, with 2,352 waiting for over a year.
I’ve been in this job for 18 months and I can say with absolute certainty that if there was an overnight fix, I would have implemented it on day one, Leo Varadkar writes.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny described the incident as “a shocking example of dysfunction in the health system”.
Fianna Fáil says that an email in the Irish Times came about because of ‘self-serving leaks’.
You’re ‘almost like a commentator at a horse race’, the Sinn Féin president told the Taoiseach today.
Changes are set to occur after an appearance by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation before the Labour Relations Commission yesterday.
“It’s not that the system isn’t sympathetic, it is – who wouldn’t be?”
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US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
You can catch up on the main points here.
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