The €74 million of additional emergency department (ED) crisis cash promised in April 2015 is expected to be made available to the HSE as part of the supplementary process for 2015.
The IMO has joined the RCSI in criticising the suggestion made by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) that surgeons, whose operations are cancelled, be drafted in to assist in busy hospital emergency departments (EDs) to help ease pressure.
Dear Editor, Minister for Health Dr Leo Varadkar has committed to opening an extra 300 beds to try to cope with the expected rise in the numbers of patients waiting on trolleys in our emergency departments.
INMO members held a lunchtime protest at the Emergency Department (ED) in St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin on October 12 and were due to commence a work-to-rule on October 13.
It is impossible to state exactly why the number of patients on trolleys at Mayo General Hospital spiked in August, the CEO of the Saolta University Health Care Group has said.
There was a total loss of 240 surgical bed days at Naas Hospital due to day surgery beds being used for overflow patients over the last number of months — due to increased emergency department (ED) activity.
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