Less hopitals = less trollies

Question: if you take the wheels off a trolley, does it become a bed?

seen one guy spend 5 days on a trolley, eighty year olds on trolleys, no pillows no blankets. I received a blood transfusion on a trolley in a hallway. there were 20 beds in clonmel hospital closed when all this was going on…….. i could go on and on. the minister for health is a liar

This man is seriously spouting some shite! My mother was forced to wait 3.5hrs for an ambulance her GP called & then she had to spend almost 55hrs on a plastic chair to wait for a bed. To put it into context my mother is almost 70, is an asthmatic, has osteoporosis, arthritis & had surgery to remove a non malignant (thankfully) tumour. All the while overdosing junkies were being wheeled in & being seen to first! That made my blood boil!!!! O’Reilly you are an absolute disgrace & every bit as bad as your predecessor.

It isn’t that there are fewer people on trollies. The numbers look better because of new admission procedures. Someone can visit A+E and be put on a trolley for days but if they are not admitted to the hospital (you can’t be a patient if you are not admitted) then they are left off the reports of patient numbers on trollies. It all lies, ask any A+E staff nurse in the country and you’ll get the truth.

Winning the war? they are now numbering the chairs that patient sit on in Beaumont hospital A&E

Winning the war on trollies – losing the Department of Health.

How can the Minister claim that the SDU is a success when the knock on effect has been thousands more patients waiting longer for hospital procedures? This is a serious development. We still, 16 months later, have no idea how he is going to fund and implement the universal health insurance? (It’s looking like he has no clue either).

Any idea what is preventing the Minister from tackling GP and hospital consultant pay? Why u-turn on allowing public hospitals to charge all private patients? How is abolishing the HSE and returning to several sub sections headed by political appointees going to improve the situation? Will we be back to the days of who you know …

Minister Reilly has had “communication difficulties” with the CEO of the HSE and his own Jr Minister. We have a Minister of health who is failing to get a grip of the health service and its many vested interests. Roisin Shorthall should be speaking a little louder.

Relative of mine just sat for 48 hours straight on a child’s chair in the Mater. Is that winning?

As ripley would say believe it or NOT, I for one do not believe it as I have been to the hospital in clonmel over the last few weeks and its worse it is getting trollies would not needed if the beds were not closed.

Less trolleys in tesco

It’s amazing how good statistics look when the figures have had a good massage! Third rate service in what’s supposed to be a developed country.

Running a nursing home isn’t the same as running a hospital. He hasn’t a clue!!!

Minister for Health Not winning war on general appearance n grooming

Having spent the last 11 months in the Mater, Beaumont, and Blanchardstown all I can say is O ‘Reilly you are a clown you can throw figures anyway you want. The situation is desperate . Beaumont looked over staffed but in a good way and the other 2 were like walking into a school at 8 o clock in the evening … Deserted at the height of the week. The work of the ground staff is amazing but clearly the other staff higher up have their heads in the clouds!!

As long as doctors are working long and unsafe hours, as long as *any* patient has to wait on a trolley to get a bed, our health system is worse than it was in the 1950s.
The idea that the failing HSE, which replaced the failing health boards, is again being broken up into regional health boards as a ‘solution’ is just – well, don’t say they don’t make great comedy any more.

It’s well known why there is a drop in patients on trolleys…. It’s seasonal
Cop on Reilly you think we are all stupid well news for you we are not and most of us actually keep an eye and keep ourselves up to date with the trolley watch.And closing A&Es increases the demand on beds in the other Hospitals and increases the cost of ambulance service increases. We in Roscommon are in a living nightmare with the closure of our A&E

There is a serious process deficiency in the management of getting people through the hospital system . If the hospitals were privatised and the money followed the patient then i suspect that beds would be found much quicker. As it stands its broken and at best 2nd world. It’s an utter disgrace that frail, elderly and sick people are treated with such indignity .

Well Mick from what I saw apart from Beaumont the other wee devoid off staff and in relation to the trolley figures I wouldn’t doubt the data source but what I would question is how many more people are on chairs? because that would decrease the trolley figure. And I saw that first hand.

Spintastic news altogether!

We need to look at WHY there are so many teens with missing limbs and spinal injuries! Take Drogheda for example. 1 out of 5 teens is disabled and 1 out of 3 female teens is pregnant. Get yer trolley!

Mr Peedoff…the figures are validated by the Irish Nurses Organisation . What part of this does your short circuited brain have a difficulty understanding?