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Design, space, general layout of ED in Beaumont Hospital “generally not fit for purpose”

The IMO has warned that escalation protocols signed by the Minister for Health last week will do nothing to solve crowding in hospital emergency departments (EDs), but only serve to mask the problem.

The ED Task Force Plan for addressing hospital emergency departments’ crowding challenges is taking effect, but poor industrial relations could divert focus from its implementation, writes Gary Culliton.

Maternity, acute medical and paediatric services are to continue at Portlaoise and elective day surgery is likely to be expanded.

A number of hospitals have reported that more than 10 per cent of emergency department (ED) patients were in EDs for more than 24 hours in January, including at St Vincent’s (10.

Emergency departments (EDs) “will remain crowded” with a delayed discharge target of 500, the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has warned.

Poor-performing hospitals in terms of Patient Experience Time (PET) in February included St James’s Hospital, where just 64 per cent of patients attending the Emergency Department (ED) were discharged home or admitted within nine hours.

The Healthcare Commissioning Agency (HCA) could potentially purchase emergency services from the private sector “if private hospitals could supply services that met all safety and quality standards at a price that was competitive”, the Department of Health has indicated.

Fresh from his defence of Navan Hospital on RTÉ’s Prime Time, Dr Ruairi Hanley reiterates that the theory and reality of ‘centralisation’ are two very different things in the North East.

Returning from 18 weeks parental leave, Dara Gantly finds that not much has changed in the world of Irish medicine, apart from the prospect of the most radical shake-up of general practice in a quarter of a century.