# emergency-department - Saturday 13 April, 2013
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine has said that the problem will worsen after July.
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# emergency-department - Saturday 16 February, 2013
The new emergency department at the hospital will open tomorrow.
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# emergency-department - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Patients that are seriously ill or injured should dial 999 or go directly to another Emergency Department.
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# emergency-department - Thursday 7 February, 2013
The relocation had previously been postponed as management at the hospital said it did not want to impose additional pressures on other hospitals.
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# emergency-department - Friday 25 January, 2013
Management said it did not want to impose additional pressures on other hospitals.
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# emergency-department - Friday 4 January, 2013
Restrictions are still place in Limerick and Cavan though the number of reported cases have significantly declined.
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# emergency-department - Sunday 2 December, 2012
Dr Declan Bedford said we need a national strategy that should include minimum pricing in Ireland to control alcohol sales at discount prices.
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# emergency-department - Friday 19 October, 2012
Beaumont Hospital in Dublin had the largest overspend in the hospital sector running at nearly €20 million at the end of August.
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# emergency-department - Wednesday 22 August, 2012
The HSE has produced a report which proposes getting rid of all agency staff in three hospitals – but the plan has drawn harsh criticism.
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# emergency-department - Saturday 21 July, 2012
The emergency department at Cork’s South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital will close next weekend.
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# emergency-department - Thursday 19 July, 2012
The National Ambulance Service says it followed all correct protocols, and says the shortest route isn’t always the best one.
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Roscommon Hospital Action Committee has said that there are people dying because of the decision to remove emergency services from the hospital.
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# emergency-department - Wednesday 20 June, 2012
24-hour emergency services at Our Lady’s Hospital are to cease in August.
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# emergency-department - Thursday 7 June, 2012
The latest HSE performance report evaluates hospitals’ discharge and admission rates, as well as response times and lengths of stay.
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# emergency-department - Monday 28 May, 2012
If Tallaght can change procedures within three days to cut waiting times, the IAEM says, so can other hospitals.
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# emergency-department - Thursday 17 May, 2012
Health watchdog HIQA found that over 80 per cent of patients in the emergency department were kept on a corridor and had to wait around 13 hours for a bed.
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The report by the Health Information and Quality Authority will be published at 11am this morning.
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# emergency-department - Thursday 29 March, 2012
The Mid Western Regional Hospital has said patients should only come to its emergency department in cases of “urgent need”.
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# emergency-department - Tuesday 21 February, 2012
The HSE’s report for December 2011 also showed that 62 posts – mostly in emergency medicine and psychiatry – need to be filled.
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# emergency-department - Monday 6 February, 2012
A review by the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine shows there is an “unsafe deficit” within a certain grade in the Emergency Medicine tier, even after the recruitment of staff from abroad.
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# emergency-department - Friday 3 February, 2012
More bad news for already-stretched household budgets as insurance costs have now risen by up to 65 per cent in the past 13 months.
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# emergency-department - Thursday 13 October, 2011
A local doctor has expressed fears over the closure at the city’s South Infirmary, which was announced today.
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# emergency-department - Tuesday 4 October, 2011
Nurses are calling on the HSE and Dept of Health to address “gross overcrowding” at the hospital, where 17 admitted patients were waiting on trolleys for a bed yesterday.
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# emergency-department - Thursday 29 September, 2011
Meanwhile, Health Minister Dr James Reilly says the work stoppages are “unsafe, unsound and unwarranted”.
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# emergency-department - Monday 26 September, 2011
The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine believes changing the management of emergency departments could save hundreds of lives.
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# emergency-department - Saturday 24 September, 2011
Galway University Hospital has asked members of the public to only present to the Emergency Department if there is a genuine emergency.
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# emergency-department - Wednesday 21 September, 2011
Nurses at Limerick’s Mid Western Regional Hospital are holding a picket line outside thie hospital from 1pm to 5pm today.
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# emergency-department - Thursday 15 September, 2011
Overcrowding has led to “appalling conditions” in a Limerick emergency department, a nurses’ union said.
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# emergency-department - Tuesday 6 September, 2011
In today’s Fix: Emergency Department nurses in Limerick vote in favour of industrial action; former Chief of General Staff of the Yugoslav army is jailed for war crimes; and we are left in no doubt about Madonna’s taste in blooms…
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Nurses in the Emergency Department at the Mid Western Regional Hospital have voted in favour of taking industrial action over bed capacity at the Limerick hospital.
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Up to 70 nurses at the Emergency Department in the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Limerick are balloting on whether to take industrial action today.
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# emergency-department - Monday 8 August, 2011
Protesters say they will continue the sit-in into the night as the urgent care facility at the hospital closes its doors.
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# emergency-department - Thursday 4 August, 2011
Nurses have started a work to rule because of overcrowding at the Dublin hospital.
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# emergency-department - Wednesday 6 July, 2011
Tense scenes in the Dáil ahead of this evening’s vote on cutting Roscommon’s emergency department.
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Thousands will protest the closure of the emergency department at Roscommon County Hospital today. The department was considered to be unsafe….so is it right to close it?
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# emergency-department - Tuesday 5 July, 2011
The emergency unit is being replaced by an ‘urgent care unit’, but what does that mean? What can it treat?
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# emergency-department - Monday 27 June, 2011
The Taoiseach has confirmed that the hospital’s emergency department will no longer be 24/7.
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As HIQA launches its investigation into emergency services at Tallaght Hospital, TheJournal.ie asks how you feel about emergency treatment in Ireland.
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Emergency Medicine group calls for HIQA to expand its investigation to all hospitals which have a record of chronic overcrowding in their emergency departments.
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