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There were 413 people on trolleys in EDs and a further 188 on wards

Until employees and providers of services can be sure that contracts agreed will be honoured by the employer, there is little hope that the manpower crisis in the medical profession will change, says IMO President Dr Ray Walley.

Open Letter To whom it may concern, National ED data for January 1-25, 2016, showing numbers visiting the Emergency Department at the Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise, indicate a rising volume of activity in the ED at the hospital.

Dr Ruairi Hanley, who believes that his colleagues are misguided to believe that general practice can solve the ED crisis, urges GPs to ‘keep it real’ in terms of what their specialty can deliver.

St Vincent’s University Hospital had 53 patients on trolleys in its Emergency Department (ED) earlier today (Tuesday, January 26) — the highest figure yet in 2016, Irish Medical Times reports.

A national meeting of nursing representatives from every Emergency Department (ED), including the members of the National ED Representative Committee, is due to take place today (January 19) at the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation’s (INMO) head office, as the trolley count has again breached the 500 figure.

A proposal equivalent to “time plus one-sixth” payments, which would pave the way for a transfer to nursing staff of four NCHD tasks, is awaiting top-level sign-off at the Department of Health.

Dr Garrett FitzGerald is unhappy that our usually favourite Martian, whose views on Earth’s problems are pin-point accurate and listened to by most in terrestrial power, is being ignored when it comes to our ED crisis.

The Laois Faculty of the ICGP and Laois MIDOC out-of-hours GP service members have restated their grave concerns that services at the Midland Regional Hospital at Portlaoise will likely be downgraded.

Fixing the ED crisis requires wider hospital improvements — beyond EDs, Gary Culliton reports.