The Chief Executive of Charter Medical Group, Mr Dave Shanahan, has said the government could use assets now acquired through Anglo Irish Bank to house hospitals and postpone capital developments under the NDP. “Additionally we could use suitable empty properties on Anglo’s books to house elderly people in better quality carehomes. As a corollary, there [...]
The average emergency department (ED) waiting-time at Beaumont Hospital did not improve following the opening of a ‘transit lounge’ there, a study published in the Irish Medical Journal shows. The average time that patients requiring admission spent waiting for a ward bed following the opening of the transit lounge was 23 hours and two minutes, [...]
A California woman shocked doctors by giving birth on Monday to octuplets, believed to be only the second set of eight babies born in the United States.
There were 35 people awaiting admission at Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital Emergency Department yesterday. There were 25 people on trolleys in Beaumont’s Emergency Department awaiting admission and 10 patients in beds in the Admissions Lounge awaiting transfer to beds in wards. There were 33 people on trolleys at Tallaght and 32 people on trolleys at St [...]
There were forty patients on trolleys at Cork University Hospital yesterday, according to the Irish Nurses’ Organisation’s Trolleywatch. The number on trolleys in Beaumont hospital in Dublin has fallen from 40 to 31, with ten people in the ‘transition lounge’. There were 30 people on trolleys at UCHG in Galway and 27 at Dublin’s St [...]
The long-awaited independent review of acute hospital services in the southern region will be published towards the end of February at the earliest, a senior manager at the Health Service Executive (HSE) has confirmed. Addressing Regional Health Forum members on January 15, Gerry O’Dwyer, Network Manager for the HSE’s Southern Hospitals Group, confirmed that the [...]
The average Emergency Department waiting time at Beaumont hospital, did not improve following the opening of a ‘Transit Lounge’ there, a study published in the Irish Medical Journal shows. The average time that patients requiring emergency admission spent waiting for a ward bed following the opening of the Transit lounge was 23 hours 2 minutes [...]
Yesterday there were 40 patients on trolleys in the Emergency Department of Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital, and a further ten people in the Admissions Lounge of the hospital. The number of people on trolleys this morning is 19, a spokesperson for the hospital said. There are currently 21 beds at the hospital closed for “deep cleaning” [...]
The closure of the 19 bed St. Bridget’s geriatric ward in Waterford’s St. Patrick’s Hospital is “necessary,” the HSE has said. It is not viable to continue to accommodate patients in the upper floor of St. Patrick’s, nor is it viable to refurbish the ward to the required standards, due to health and fire safety/evacuation [...]
Hospitals in the south east hope to achieve savings of more than €5 million this year by targeting overtime, absenteeism and the use of locums. According to new cost containment measures for the South East Hospital Group, reductions in overtime, absenteeism and use of locums at Waterford Regional Hospital (WRH) will yield €2.7 million in [...]
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