As at June 2015, there were 10,528 inpatient average beds available compared to 10,633 some four years earlier, the HSE has confirmed — a situation that could be adding to unprecedented hospital emergency department (ED) crowding levels, IMT reports.
A new initiative — Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEMS) Units — are at development stage in the Ireland East Hospital Group (IEHG), it has emerged.
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has expressed concern at “official responses to the well publicised case of an unfortunate patient who waited on a trolley for 29 hours on a corridor in Tallaght Hospital’s Emergency Department before being admitted to a hospital bed”.
The IMO has written to the HSE Director General, Tony O’Brien, asking to be included in the ED Task Force Implementation Group.
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