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# trolleys - Tuesday 3 September, 2019
'Two friends died by suicide': Doctors say 'profoundly dysfunctional' health service takes huge toll
Consultants have said staffing and resource issues are impacting their mental health and compromising patient care.
# trolleys - Thursday 2 May, 2019
Harris says pathologists that raised concerns about Waterford mortuary 'carried out an important duty'
The journalist who broke the story has published the letter which originally raised concerns.
# trolleys - Monday 29 April, 2019
'Serious questions raised': Waterford hospital says it has not received any complaints about mortuary
There have been calls for hospital management to appear before the Oireachtas Health Committee “as a matter of urgency”.
# trolleys - Wednesday 2 January, 2019
Worst year on record: Almost 110,000 patients went without hospital beds last year
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
'Worst October ever': Over 9,000 patients forced to wait on trolleys this month
The INMO has said the health service “simply does not have capacity to cope” with demand.
# trolleys - Tuesday 30 October, 2018
'Perfect storm' will see over 1,000 people on trolleys this winter
The IMO has said the situation won’t be due to a “flu crisis”, rather a “failure of policy”.
# trolleys - Friday 19 October, 2018
Almost 10,000 over-75s left lying on trolleys for more than 24 hours in first eight months of year
Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly said the situation is far worse than last year.
# trolleys - Friday 31 August, 2018
'Worst August on record' for hospital overcrowding with almost 8,000 on trolleys
The HSE has said it regrets any delays experienced by patients.
# trolleys - Wednesday 29 August, 2018
Hospitals warned about safety of patient trolleys after reports of some malfunctioning
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
There were a record 9,091 patients waiting on trolleys in Ireland's hospitals last month
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
'Record-breaking month': Over 10,000 patients were on trolleys during March
Today there were 485 patients on trolleys with 338 in emergency departments and a further 147 on wards.
# trolleys - Thursday 18 January, 2018
'People are dying': Life-saving surgeries delayed or cancelled due to intensive care bed shortage
Minister of State Jim Daly said increasing ICU capacity is a priority for the government in 2018.
# trolleys - Monday 15 January, 2018
'It's a wake-up call': 73 children on trolleys in emergency depts so far this year
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
Varadkar doesn't want anyone to face 'indignity' caused by waiting on a trolley
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
More than 2,400 people on trolleys in first week of 2018
Nursing representatives met with HSE officials earlier today to see how hospital overcrowding can be reduced.
# trolleys - Friday 22 December, 2017
Surgeries at Cork hospital cancelled for two weeks as flu and 'revelry' make their impact
The move is an attempt to ease pressure on services over the busy Christmas period.
# trolleys - Sunday 20 August, 2017
'It's totally unacceptable': Over 650 children left on hospital trolleys so far this year
Over 1,000 children are expected to wait for a bed this year.
# trolleys - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
These are the most overcrowded hospitals in the country
There’s been an improvement in Dublin, but things are getting worse in other counties.
# trolleys - Wednesday 8 February, 2017
FactCheck: Are there really fewer people on hospital trolleys this year?
The Tánaiste made the claim amid ongoing debate about wait times in Irish healthcare.
# trolleys - Thursday 2 February, 2017
'Groundhog Day' as month begins with 600 people on hospital trolleys
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
'If this many people were dying in another way, there’d be war over it'
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
Alan Kelly says his prediction of 'hell in our hospitals' has come true
He wants private hospital facilities to be used to help ease the pressure on emergency departments in public hospitals.
Paramedics 'disturbed' over delays bringing patients to Emergency Departments
Siptu members said today that delays of between one and three hours have been observed across the country.
Patients describe nurses 'red in the face' from work and guilt of seeing elderly on trolleys
Over 600 people are still on trolleys in Ireland’s hospitals today, the second highest figure ever recorded.
# trolleys - Tuesday 3 January, 2017
There are currently 612 people waiting for beds in Irish hospitals
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) says it sets a new record.
# trolleys - Wednesday 7 December, 2016
Conditions at Tipperary hospital 'undignified, disgraceful and dangerous'
This morning there were 378 patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals.
# trolleys - Friday 2 December, 2016
Elderly woman spends 15 hours on hospital trolley
The woman, believed to be 103, finally got a bed this morning.
There has actually been a slight drop in people on hospital trolleys this year
While the numbers on trolleys is down 1% this year, figures for November were described as “particularly alarming”.
# trolleys - Tuesday 6 September, 2016
The hospital trolley problem is getting better, slowly
There’s a marked difference between Dublin and the rest of the country.
# trolleys - Wednesday 20 April, 2016
Patients left lying on trolleys while 40-bed unit remains vacant at nearby hospital
Yesterday there were 20 patients on trolleys at Tipperary General Hospital.
# trolleys - Tuesday 22 December, 2015
There's to be a 'zero tolerance' approach to patients waiting in emergency departments
It’s among a rang of rules to help fight hospital overcrowding.
# trolleys - Saturday 21 November, 2015
The number of people on Beaumont Hospital waiting lists shows why the place is overcrowded
It’s over 10,000, with 2,352 waiting for over a year.
# trolleys - Tuesday 17 November, 2015
Leo: If there was an overnight fix for the health service I would've implemented it
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
Tallaght Hospital to probe how information on 91-year-old patient was given to media
Taoiseach Enda Kenny described the incident as “a shocking example of dysfunction in the health system”.
# trolleys - Tuesday 29 September, 2015
Leo Varadkar is being accused of leaking his own email
Fianna Fáil says that an email in the Irish Times came about because of ‘self-serving leaks’.
# trolleys - Tuesday 17 February, 2015
Enda to Gerry: "The trampoline must be having an effect on you"
You’re ‘almost like a commentator at a horse race’, the Sinn Féin president told the Taoiseach today.
# trolleys - Thursday 12 February, 2015
The hospital with the worst overcrowding problem is getting a boost of nurses
Changes are set to occur after an appearance by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation before the Labour Relations Commission yesterday.
Minister: Trust me, I'm aware of cases like Lucy
“It’s not that the system isn’t sympathetic, it is – who wouldn’t be?”
# trolleys - Saturday 7 February, 2015
Sex, Smirnoff and the Six Nations: The week in numbers
Plus: How much does it cost to replace the lightbulb at the top of the Spire?
# trolleys - Wednesday 14 January, 2015
"A poor example": Varadkar heavily criticises Martin over emergency department crisis
The Health Minister said no one wants to sort out the overcrowding crisis more than he does.
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Poll: Is it fair to ask politicians about their own personal drug use?
TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin went head-to-head in the first live televised election debate last night where a range of issues from healthcare to housing were discussed.
One moment that set people talking was towards the end of the debate when presenter Pat Kenny asked each of the candidates if they have ever used illegal drugs.
While Martin instantly replied that he has never taken illegal drugs, Varadkar said he already answered this question in an interview several years ago. After he was pressed for an answer from Kenny and Martin, Varadkar admitted he had used illegal drugs but said it was “obviously a long time ago.”
Speaking on the Tonight Show after the debate, Fr Peter McVerry dismissed it as a pointless question, adding that only people buying drugs regularly should have to account for their moral decision.
It is clear that a wider debate is to be had around personal drug use and how much of this should be shared by those running for elected office.
So today we’re asking you: Is it fair to ask politicians about their own personal drug use?
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