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# Trolleys

This year
2023
HSE has 'significant concerns' it will continue to miss emergency department targets
The HSE aimed to have 99% of patients over the age of 75 discharged or admitted within nine hours of having turned up at hospital, but the real figure was 50.9%
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Jul 23rd 2023, 4:02 PM
Surge in viruses seen in the Mid-West as some people contract more than one virus
Public Health Mid-West said it has seen a “noticeable increase” in adults.
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Jan 10th 2023, 11:20 AM
INMO calls for return of mandatory mask-wearing in crowded settings amid record trolley numbers
Over 931 patients are without beds in Irish hospitals today – the highest number since records began in 2006.
Covid-19 and influenza cases continue to increase rapidly, while notifications of RSV are also increasing
A consultant at University Hospital Limerick said "conditions in many instances are inhumane"
Services at several hospitals around the country are under extreme pressure
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Jan 3rd 2023, 1:45 PM
Last year
2022
Mater restricts visits due to high levels of respiratory infections as 'record' overcrowding hits hospitals
It’s the joint-highest number of patients without a bed that the organisation has ever recorded.
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Dec 19th 2022, 5:57 PM
Number of patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals hits year-high
669 people are on trolleys in Irish hospitals today, a figure that includes 28 children.
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Oct 25th 2022, 4:16 PM
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'Staff are beyond breaking point': Government accused of leaving health service vulnerable
Taoiseach Micheal Martin said said that close to 938 beds are to be ‘delivered’ by the end of the year.
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Oct 19th 2021, 6:27 PM
Highest number of patients on trolleys since start of the pandemic
506 admitted patients were waiting for beds this morning.
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Oct 12th 2021, 12:28 PM
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
'We're sleepwalking back to mass overcrowding': 221 patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals
The INMO has warned that overcrowding and Covid-19 make for a ‘toxic combination’.
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Sep 2nd 2020, 5:08 PM
'Two friends died by suicide': Doctors say 'profoundly dysfunctional' health service takes huge toll
Consultants have said staffing and resource issues are impacting their mental health and compromising patient care.
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Sep 3rd 2019, 6:00 AM
Harris says pathologists that raised concerns about Waterford mortuary 'carried out an important duty'
The journalist who broke the story has published the letter which originally raised concerns.
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May 2nd 2019, 4:05 PM
'Serious questions raised': Waterford hospital says it has not received any complaints about mortuary
There have been calls for hospital management to appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee “as a matter of urgency”.
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Apr 29th 2019, 8:42 PM
Worst year on record: Almost 110,000 patients went without hospital beds last year
The INMO says its a 9% increase on 2017 – itself a record high – and nearly double the number in 2006 when records began.
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Jan 2nd 2019, 2:35 PM
'Worst October ever': Over 9,000 patients forced to wait on trolleys this month
The INMO has said the health service “simply does not have capacity to cope” with demand.
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Oct 31st 2018, 1:14 PM
'Perfect storm' will see over 1,000 people on trolleys this winter
The IMO has said the situation won’t be due to a “flu crisis”, rather a “failure of policy”.
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Oct 30th 2018, 7:34 AM
Almost 10,000 over-75s left lying on trolleys for more than 24 hours in first eight months of year
Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly said the situation is far worse than last year.
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Oct 19th 2018, 7:21 AM
'Worst August on record' for hospital overcrowding with almost 8,000 on trolleys
The HSE has said it regrets any delays experienced by patients.
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Aug 31st 2018, 3:16 PM
Hospitals warned about safety of patient trolleys after reports of some malfunctioning
The HPRA said that it is aware of complaints made from an Irish hospital regarding the Tautmann UT10 patient trolley.
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Aug 29th 2018, 6:34 PM
There were a record 9,091 patients waiting on trolleys in Ireland's hospitals last month
The 9,091 figure represents a 12% jump from May 2017, and a massive 116% jump from the situation in 2006.
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Jun 5th 2018, 7:00 AM
'Record-breaking month': Over 10,000 patients were on trolleys during March
Today there were 485 patients on trolleys with 338 in emergency departments and a further 147 on wards.
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Mar 29th 2018, 10:08 PM
'People are dying': Life-saving surgeries delayed or cancelled due to intensive care bed shortage
Minister of State Jim Daly said increasing ICU capacity is a priority for the government in 2018.
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Jan 18th 2018, 6:05 AM
'It's a wake-up call': 73 children on trolleys in emergency depts so far this year
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.
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Jan 15th 2018, 1:41 PM
Varadkar doesn't want anyone to face 'indignity' caused by waiting on a trolley
The Taoiseach said he was speaking as both a doctor and a grandson whose grandmother is “regularly in and out of hospital”.
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Jan 10th 2018, 6:26 PM
More than 2,400 people on trolleys in first week of 2018
Nursing representatives met with HSE officials earlier today to see how hospital overcrowding can be reduced.
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Jan 5th 2018, 7:56 PM
Surgeries at Cork hospital cancelled for two weeks as flu and 'revelry' make their impact
The move is an attempt to ease pressure on services over the busy Christmas period.
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Dec 22nd 2017, 8:45 AM
'It's totally unacceptable': Over 650 children left on hospital trolleys so far this year
Over 1,000 children are expected to wait for a bed this year.
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Aug 20th 2017, 1:00 PM
These are the most overcrowded hospitals in the country
There’s been an improvement in Dublin, but things are getting worse in other counties.
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May 3rd 2017, 7:00 AM
FactCheck: Are there really fewer people on hospital trolleys this year?
The Tánaiste made the claim amid ongoing debate about wait times in Irish healthcare.
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Feb 8th 2017, 8:00 PM
'Groundhog Day' as month begins with 600 people on hospital trolleys
The figure of 601 is just short of the high of 612 patients on trolleys at the beginning of January.
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Feb 2nd 2017, 7:29 AM
'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
Alan Kelly says his prediction of 'hell in our hospitals' has come true
He wants private hospital facilities to be used to help ease the pressure on emergency departments in public hospitals.
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Jan 4th 2017, 8:00 PM
Paramedics 'disturbed' over delays bringing patients to Emergency Departments
Siptu members said today that delays of between one and three hours have been observed across the country.
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Jan 4th 2017, 6:45 PM
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.
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Jan 4th 2017, 3:08 PM
There are currently 612 people waiting for beds in Irish hospitals
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) says it sets a new record.
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Jan 3rd 2017, 12:37 PM
Conditions at Tipperary hospital 'undignified, disgraceful and dangerous'
This morning there were 378 patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals.
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Dec 7th 2016, 1:00 PM
Elderly woman spends 15 hours on hospital trolley
The woman, believed to be 103, finally got a bed this morning.
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Dec 2nd 2016, 5:22 PM
There has actually been a slight drop in people on hospital trolleys this year
While the numbers on trolleys is down 1% this year, figures for November were described as “particularly alarming”.
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Dec 2nd 2016, 9:05 AM
The hospital trolley problem is getting better, slowly
There’s a marked difference between Dublin and the rest of the country.
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Sep 6th 2016, 9:40 AM
Patients left lying on trolleys while 40-bed unit remains vacant at nearby hospital
Yesterday there were 20 patients on trolleys at Tipperary General Hospital.
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Apr 20th 2016, 6:01 AM
There's to be a 'zero tolerance' approach to patients waiting in emergency departments
It’s among a rang of rules to help fight hospital overcrowding.
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Dec 22nd 2015, 9:49 AM
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