# emergency-departments - Thursday 6 December, 2018
The executive published its €30m Winter Plan for 2018/19 today.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 18 July, 2018
The Irish Medical Organisation has said that additional resources are needed immediately.
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# emergency-departments - Thursday 29 March, 2018
Over three in every four cases diagnosed in emergency departments are at an advanced stage.
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# emergency-departments - Monday 12 March, 2018
University Hospital Limerick saw the highest figures today, with 80 patients awaiting a bed.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 28 February, 2018
John Paul O’Connor says he was shocked by what he witnessed at University Hospital Kerry last week.
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# emergency-departments - Friday 19 January, 2018
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.
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# emergency-departments - Monday 8 January, 2018
Many emergency departments are experiencing very high numbers of patients presenting at hospital.
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# emergency-departments - Friday 5 January, 2018
It’s a hospital overcrowding problem that has been decanted into the Emergency Department, writes Dr Anthony O’Connor.
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# emergency-departments - Thursday 4 January, 2018
His last days were prefaced by an extended period of unnecessary suffering in the Emergency Department of his local hospital.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 15 November, 2017
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.
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# emergency-departments - Sunday 15 October, 2017
A prototype of the app will be available by this November.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 22 March, 2017
People over the age of 65 are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of medicine.
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# emergency-departments - Saturday 21 January, 2017
What do doctors and nurses want done to tackle hospital overcrowding and record numbers on trolleys? More beds, for starters.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 4 January, 2017
Over 600 people are still on trolleys in Ireland’s hospitals today, the second highest figure ever recorded.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 7 December, 2016
The three children’s hospitals in Dublin have asked families to go to GPs where possible.
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# emergency-departments - Saturday 12 November, 2016
Three hospitals in Dublin have issued the appeal.
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# emergency-departments - Sunday 6 November, 2016
“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.”
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 19 October, 2016
Simon Harris is considering the move, but said it wouldn’t be straightforward.
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# emergency-departments - Thursday 4 August, 2016
A new psychoactive substance has also been shown to be on the rise.
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# emergency-departments - Tuesday 3 May, 2016
INMO’s 97th Annual Delegate Conference kicks off tomorrow morning.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 13 April, 2016
This group of patients often have psychosocial, substance misuse and/or chronic illness issues.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 16 March, 2016
There’s a new plan to ensure people who self-harm get the help they need.
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# emergency-departments - Friday 22 January, 2016
Hospitals are also reporting a surge in people presenting with flu-like symptoms.
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# emergency-departments - Friday 8 January, 2016
Meanwhile, doctors are being balloted on industrial action at University Hospital Limerick.
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# emergency-departments - Tuesday 5 January, 2016
The INMO strike will see rolling two hour stoppages at emergency departments on 14 January.
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# emergency-departments - Thursday 10 December, 2015
The INMO believes there is “a tolerance of emergency department overcrowding”.
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# emergency-departments - Friday 7 August, 2015
Unless they have to attend CUH, patients are being asked to seek treatment elsewhere.
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# emergency-departments - Thursday 19 March, 2015
The car crashed in to the entrance yesterday evening.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 14 January, 2015
The Health Minister said no one wants to sort out the overcrowding crisis more than he does.
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# emergency-departments - Thursday 8 January, 2015
The Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has slammed the Health Minister in the wake of the hospital overcrowding crisis.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 7 January, 2015
The Health Minister said the problem is going to get worse next week.
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It’s a very similar story in England.
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# emergency-departments - Monday 5 January, 2015
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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# emergency-departments - Monday 15 December, 2014
Health Minister Leo Varadkar says he expects the situation in Beaumont to ease this week — but nurses want an ‘emergency’ declared.
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# emergency-departments - Tuesday 9 September, 2014
A new study published in the Irish Medical Journal has also found that handguns have lead to a substantial increase in the mortality rate from firearm injuries.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 20 August, 2014
Nurses say overcrowding levels are dangerous.
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# emergency-departments - Friday 27 June, 2014
The issue centred on what the HSE is doing to mitigate the risks to patients who are waiting transfers in EDs to inpatient beds.
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# emergency-departments - Monday 14 April, 2014
Staff say they are worried about a lack of staffing at the hospital.
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# emergency-departments - Wednesday 9 April, 2014
We need innovative solutions to the increasingly dangerous and frustrating problem of overburdened emergency departments, writes Lauren Joslin.
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# emergency-departments - Friday 24 January, 2014
The IAEM says the number of trolley inpatients in wards has increased since last year, not decreased.
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