Tag Archives: Emergency department crowding

Key Winter Initiative objective met, however: a targeted reduction of delayed discharges

Improving waiting times for scheduled care for patients is a key priority for the Department of Health (DoH).

At a time when there was incontrovertible evidence of the serious deficit in bed capacity, both in acute hospitals and in the community sector, the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has criticised the new Government’s “feeble commitment to simply carrying out a ‘review’ of national bed capacity”.

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has warned of poor medical outcomes at a time of “dangerous levels of Emergency Department (ED) crowding”.

While debate rages over the safety of MMA, Dr Ruairi Hanley believes the unnecessary deaths occurring in our hospitals due to ED overcrowding and ICU bed shortages deserve more immediate action

Following the recent AGM of the Save Navan Hospital Campaign, re-elected PRO Dr Ruairi Hanley reiterates that allowing patients previously treated in Navan to languish on trolleys in Drogheda can never be in the best interests of patient safety.

Dear Editor, Dr Ruairi Hanley believes that colleagues are misguided to believe that GPs can help solve the trolley crisis and quotes a colleague of mine, Dr Fergal Hickey, who feels that increased investment in primary care will have zero impact on the trolley crisis.

Dear Editor, In Old Ireland, Brehon Law offered the provision that a freeman might sit outside the house of his debtor and starve himself to death in order to shame his oppressor into recompense.

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) hopes that last week’s agreement between the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) and the HSE will ensure that “consistent, effective escalation policies” are in place around the country, allowing hospitals to respond in a more timely fashion to emergency department (ED) overcrowding.

When it comes to the pros and cons of putting extra beds on every ward as a means of getting people off trolleys in crowded emergency departments, Dr Ruairi Hanley has to side with the ED consultants over the nurses.