# emergency-departments - Wednesday 11 December, 2019
# Emergency Departments
# Emergency Departments
An initial tranche of 83 beds have been approved for opening.
# emergency-departments - Tuesday 26 November, 2019
# Emergency Departments
# Emergency Departments
Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin hit out against the Taoiseach today stating that waiting lists for children are “quite shocking”.
# emergency-departments - Sunday 25 August, 2019
# Foreign Objects
# Foreign Objects
These figures were released to TheJournal.ie under the Freedom of Information Act.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 7 August, 2019
# Lengthy Visits
# Lengthy Visits
Nationally more than 1,000 people over the age of 75 faced emergency department waiting times of more than 24-hours every month so far this year.
# emergency-departments - Friday 15 March, 2019
# St Patrick's Day
# St Patrick's Day
The HSE has said patients may face longer waiting times at emergency departments due to an increase in people attending.
# emergency-departments - Tuesday 22 January, 2019
# Temple Street
# Temple Street
Mary Lou McDonald has accused Leo Varadkar of ‘normalising child homelessness’.
# emergency-departments - Saturday 22 December, 2018
# Under Pressure
# Under Pressure
The figures were released to Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly who called them “appalling and unacceptable”.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 6 December, 2018
# Winter Plan
# Winter Plan
The executive published its €30m Winter Plan for 2018/19 today.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 18 July, 2018
# Reform Needed
# Reform Needed
The Irish Medical Organisation has said that additional resources are needed immediately.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 29 March, 2018
# Cancer
# Cancer
Over three in every four cases diagnosed in emergency departments are at an advanced stage.
# emergency-departments - Monday 12 March, 2018
# INMO
# INMO
University Hospital Limerick saw the highest figures today, with 80 patients awaiting a bed.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 28 February, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
John Paul O’Connor says he was shocked by what he witnessed at University Hospital Kerry last week.
# emergency-departments - Friday 19 January, 2018
# Trolley Crisis
# Trolley Crisis
The HSE’s Service Plan for 2017 set a target that anyone aged 75 years and over entering an ED would be discharged or admitted within 24 hours.
# emergency-departments - Monday 8 January, 2018
# Trolley Crisis
# Trolley Crisis
Many emergency departments are experiencing very high numbers of patients presenting at hospital.
# emergency-departments - Friday 5 January, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
It’s a hospital overcrowding problem that has been decanted into the Emergency Department, writes Dr Anthony O’Connor.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 4 January, 2018
# Trolley Crisis
# Trolley Crisis
His last days were prefaced by an extended period of unnecessary suffering in the Emergency Department of his local hospital.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 15 November, 2017
# Broken Promises
# Broken Promises
The HSE’s Service Plan for 2017 set a target that anyone aged 75 years and over entering an ED would be discharged or admitted within 24 hours.
# emergency-departments - Sunday 15 October, 2017
# Emergency Departments
# Emergency Departments
A prototype of the app will be available by this November.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 22 March, 2017
# Medicine
# Medicine
People over the age of 65 are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of medicine.
# emergency-departments - Saturday 21 January, 2017
# Hospital Overcrowding
# Hospital Overcrowding
What do doctors and nurses want done to tackle hospital overcrowding and record numbers on trolleys? More beds, for starters.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 4 January, 2017
# Inside Irish Hospitals
# Inside Irish Hospitals
Over 600 people are still on trolleys in Ireland’s hospitals today, the second highest figure ever recorded.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 7 December, 2016
# Rsv
# Rsv
The three children’s hospitals in Dublin have asked families to go to GPs where possible.
# emergency-departments - Saturday 12 November, 2016
# Emergency Departments
# Emergency Departments
Three hospitals in Dublin have issued the appeal.
# emergency-departments - Sunday 6 November, 2016
# Waiting Times
# Waiting Times
“The patient doesn’t care who pays a salary or what title you have. People on the frontline need to be integrated in the decision making process.”
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 19 October, 2016
# Flu Epidemic
# Flu Epidemic
Simon Harris is considering the move, but said it wouldn’t be straightforward.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 4 August, 2016
# Emergency Departments
# Emergency Departments
A new psychoactive substance has also been shown to be on the rise.
# emergency-departments - Tuesday 3 May, 2016
# Staffing Crisis
# Staffing Crisis
INMO’s 97th Annual Delegate Conference kicks off tomorrow morning.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 13 April, 2016
# Emergency Departments
# Emergency Departments
This group of patients often have psychosocial, substance misuse and/or chronic illness issues.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 16 March, 2016
# Deliberate Self Harm
# Deliberate Self Harm
There’s a new plan to ensure people who self-harm get the help they need.
# emergency-departments - Friday 22 January, 2016
# Packed
# Packed
Hospitals are also reporting a surge in people presenting with flu-like symptoms.
# emergency-departments - Friday 8 January, 2016
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
Meanwhile, doctors are being balloted on industrial action at University Hospital Limerick.
# emergency-departments - Tuesday 5 January, 2016
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
The INMO strike will see rolling two hour stoppages at emergency departments on 14 January.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 10 December, 2015
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
The INMO believes there is “a tolerance of emergency department overcrowding”.
# emergency-departments - Friday 7 August, 2015
# Waiting Room
# Waiting Room
Unless they have to attend CUH, patients are being asked to seek treatment elsewhere.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 19 March, 2015
# Gardaí
# Gardaí
The car crashed in to the entrance yesterday evening.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 14 January, 2015
# HOSPITAL CRISIS
# HOSPITAL CRISIS
The Health Minister said no one wants to sort out the overcrowding crisis more than he does.
# emergency-departments - Thursday 8 January, 2015
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
The Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has slammed the Health Minister in the wake of the hospital overcrowding crisis.
# emergency-departments - Wednesday 7 January, 2015
# Going To Get Worse
# Going To Get Worse
The Health Minister said the problem is going to get worse next week.
# Waiting Times
# Waiting Times
It’s a very similar story in England.
# emergency-departments - Monday 5 January, 2015
# Trolleys
# Trolleys
A record number of people are now waiting for beds, with the INMO saying industrial action is likely due to ‘chronic overcrowding’.
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