# trolleys - Thursday 31 December, 2020
# Trolleys
# Trolleys
The organisation said hospital overcrowding is “unacceptable at the best of times, but it is doubly so when dealing with a contagious virus”.
# trolleys - Wednesday 2 September, 2020
# Winter Plan
# Winter Plan
The INMO has warned that overcrowding and Covid-19 make for a ‘toxic combination’.
# trolleys - Tuesday 3 September, 2019
# Trolleys
# Trolleys
Consultants have said staffing and resource issues are impacting their mental health and compromising patient care.
# trolleys - Thursday 2 May, 2019
# Trolleys
# Trolleys
The journalist who broke the story has published the letter which originally raised concerns.
# trolleys - Monday 29 April, 2019
# Trolleys
# Trolleys
There have been calls for hospital management to appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee “as a matter of urgency”.
# trolleys - Wednesday 2 January, 2019
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
The INMO says its a 9% increase on 2017 – itself a record high – and nearly double the number in 2006 when records began.
# trolleys - Wednesday 31 October, 2018
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
The INMO has said the health service “simply does not have capacity to cope” with demand.
# trolleys - Tuesday 30 October, 2018
# Warning
# Warning
The IMO has said the situation won’t be due to a “flu crisis”, rather a “failure of policy”.
# trolleys - Friday 19 October, 2018
# Crisis
# Crisis
Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly said the situation is far worse than last year.
# trolleys - Friday 31 August, 2018
# Nursing Vacancies
# Nursing Vacancies
The HSE has said it regrets any delays experienced by patients.
# trolleys - Wednesday 29 August, 2018
# Warning
# Warning
The HPRA said that it is aware of complaints made from an Irish hospital regarding the Tautmann UT10 patient trolley.
# trolleys - Tuesday 5 June, 2018
# Dire Situation
# Dire Situation
The 9,091 figure represents a 12% jump from May 2017, and a massive 116% jump from the situation in 2006.
# trolleys - Thursday 29 March, 2018
# Trollied
# Trollied
Today there were 485 patients on trolleys with 338 in emergency departments and a further 147 on wards.
# trolleys - Thursday 18 January, 2018
# Critical
# Critical
Minister of State Jim Daly said increasing ICU capacity is a priority for the government in 2018.
# trolleys - Monday 15 January, 2018
# Trolley Watch
# Trolley Watch
The Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Association has just launched a new trolley watch system – where it counts how many children are on trolleys in EDs.
# trolleys - Wednesday 10 January, 2018
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
The Taoiseach said he was speaking as both a doctor and a grandson whose grandmother is “regularly in and out of hospital”.
# trolleys - Friday 5 January, 2018
# INMO
# INMO
Nursing representatives met with HSE officials earlier today to see how hospital overcrowding can be reduced.
# trolleys - Friday 22 December, 2017
# Busy Period
# Busy Period
The move is an attempt to ease pressure on services over the busy Christmas period.
# trolleys - Sunday 20 August, 2017
# Trolleywatch
# Trolleywatch
Over 1,000 children are expected to wait for a bed this year.
# trolleys - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
# Record Highs
# Record Highs
There’s been an improvement in Dublin, but things are getting worse in other counties.
# trolleys - Wednesday 8 February, 2017
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
The Tánaiste made the claim amid ongoing debate about wait times in Irish healthcare.
# trolleys - Thursday 2 February, 2017
# Trolleywatch
# Trolleywatch
The figure of 601 is just short of the high of 612 patients on trolleys at the beginning of January.
# trolleys - 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.
# trolleys - Wednesday 4 January, 2017
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
He wants private hospital facilities to be used to help ease the pressure on emergency departments in public hospitals.
# Perfect Storm
# Perfect Storm
Siptu members said today that delays of between one and three hours have been observed across the country.
# Inside Irish Hospitals
# Inside Irish Hospitals
Over 600 people are still on trolleys in Ireland’s hospitals today, the second highest figure ever recorded.
# trolleys - Tuesday 3 January, 2017
# Health
# Health
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) says it sets a new record.
# trolleys - Wednesday 7 December, 2016
# Crisis
# Crisis
This morning there were 378 patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals.
# trolleys - Friday 2 December, 2016
# Midland Regional
# Midland Regional
The woman, believed to be 103, finally got a bed this morning.
# Trolley Watch
# Trolley Watch
While the numbers on trolleys is down 1% this year, figures for November were described as “particularly alarming”.
# trolleys - Tuesday 6 September, 2016
# Slow Recovery
# Slow Recovery
There’s a marked difference between Dublin and the rest of the country.
# trolleys - Wednesday 20 April, 2016
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
Yesterday there were 20 patients on trolleys at Tipperary General Hospital.
# trolleys - Tuesday 22 December, 2015
# Trolleys
# Trolleys
It’s among a rang of rules to help fight hospital overcrowding.
# trolleys - Saturday 21 November, 2015
# Get In The Queue
# Get In The Queue
It’s over 10,000, with 2,352 waiting for over a year.
# trolleys - Tuesday 17 November, 2015
# Opinion
# Opinion
I’ve been in this job for 18 months and I can say with absolute certainty that if there was an overnight fix, I would have implemented it on day one, Leo Varadkar writes.
# trolleys - Wednesday 4 November, 2015
# Strongly Dissatisfied
# Strongly Dissatisfied
Taoiseach Enda Kenny described the incident as “a shocking example of dysfunction in the health system”.
# trolleys - Tuesday 29 September, 2015
# Internal Affairs
# Internal Affairs
Fianna Fáil says that an email in the Irish Times came about because of ‘self-serving leaks’.
# trolleys - Tuesday 17 February, 2015
# Say What Now
# Say What Now
You’re ‘almost like a commentator at a horse race’, the Sinn Féin president told the Taoiseach today.
# trolleys - Thursday 12 February, 2015
# Our Lady Of Lourdes
# Our Lady Of Lourdes
Changes are set to occur after an appearance by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation before the Labour Relations Commission yesterday.
# Medical Cards
# Medical Cards
“It’s not that the system isn’t sympathetic, it is – who wouldn’t be?”
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