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# Trolley crisis

Last year
2023
Health minister tells taskforce that roster reform is needed to tackle hospital overcrowding
Start talks with private hospitals now to avoid disastrous winter, INMO chief to tell Minister
HSE boss: Flu, RSV and Covid figures at levels above Govt's 'most pessimistic modelling' for winter
All time
October trolley watch stats show 'almost' double numbers this year than same period in 2020
Waiting list figures on the rise as more than 550,000 patients waiting for an appointment
Harris summoned before emergency Health Committee meeting as 621 people wait on trolleys
HSE trolley crisis: Recruitment freeze is 'starving frontline services of much-needed staff'
760 people on hospital trolleys for second day in a row as overcrowding continues
Trolley numbers for this year are the highest since records began, INMO says
Woman (70) ‘left for 105 hours on trolley’ in Limerick Hospital
Opinion: Changing the model of hospital care could help solve the trolley crisis
Opinion: The key to the trolley crisis lies in a statutory right to access home care
'A national crisis': Almost 8,000 people forced to wait on hospital trolleys and chairs last month
Fianna Fáil criticises Government after 92-year-old woman spends 25 hours on hospital chair
There were a record 9,091 patients waiting on trolleys in Ireland's hospitals last month
'It would not feel right': Simon Harris cancels St Patrick's Day trip away
The government vowed to stop it, but 10,000 elderly people had to wait in A&E for more than a day
'I waited in A&E with my 5-week-old baby for 36 hours'
Private hospital beds to be used to ease Emergency Department overcrowding
Dr Anthony O'Connor: Things we could do to get more people off trolleys
Hospital consultant: 'I'd like to dispel a few myths for people about overcrowding'
'This isn't a trolley crisis - It's a system in meltdown': Minister's commitments 'worthless' say doctors
Open letter to Simon Harris: 'Our dad provided good service to Irish State but ended up on a trolley'
'If this many people were dying in another way, there’d be war over it'
Hundreds of surgeries cancelled nationwide as overcrowding crisis grips health system
An Irish nurse: 'I began to hate my job. I questioned my career. There were days when I came home crying'
How Ireland's hospitals are massaging the numbers of people on trolleys
Fianna Fáil's new ad lashes Enda Kenny's infamous promise
Leo: If there was an overnight fix for the health service I would've implemented it
'Leo needs to accept he's not the David Attenborough of the health service'