hospital overcrowding

HSE is asking for healthcare professionals to work over the June bank holiday weekend to bring services closer to weekday levels. HSE Chief, Bernard Gloster has written to healthcare staff asking them to take on extra shifts over long weekends. It’s to avoid the “dreadful position” hospitals are left in after a bank holiday weekend. […]

3 years ago

Fifteen are under 16-years-old. According to The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, there are 704 patients waiting to be admitted into hospital today. Today’s high overcrowding figures come after the May Bank Holiday weekend. The number has increased compared to the Easter Bank Holiday three weeks ago, when there were 593 patients waiting on trolleys. […]

3 years ago

“We are likely to see more pressure.” The Minister for Health has said that there will be likely more pressure put on Irish hospitals due to the rise in respiratory illnesses in the coming weeks. This comes after it was reported that hospitals saw the highest number of people waiting on trolleys ever recorded in […]

3 years ago

“This cannot continue.” More than 550 children have been left on trolleys in “chaotic” hospital conditions over the last month which saw November the highest on record for overcrowding. November saw a total of 12,624 people on a hospital trolley, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) reported. There were 563 children out of those […]

4 years ago

Every year, around 4,500 babies are born prematurely in Ireland. And for the vast majority of them, this means days, weeks and, for some, even months spent in the country’s Neonatal Intensive Care Units. But right now, at Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital, overcrowding is at an all-time high, with Professor Fergal Malone stating this week that […]

7 years ago

Doctors are calling for more staff and more beds.

8 years ago