Tag Archives: emergency departments (EDs)

Group is addressing capacity requirements through investment in capital and in revenue spending for nurses

Increase in bed numbers of 63 an “insult” given hundreds on trolleys, says Dr John Duddy

Hospital crowding crisis will continue until “cuts to bed numbers are reversed"

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has demanded that all emergency departments (EDs) taking 24/7 undifferentiated emergencies should have on-call cover by consultants in emergency medicine (EM), “or else they should stop taking 24/7 undifferentiated emergencies”.

It is possible that hospital emergency departments (EDs) may provide a vector for guiding cycling-related injury prevention strategies in the future, according to a study published in the latest IMJ.

While all patients admitted to hospital should be screened for the risk of malnutrition, at present less than half (20) of hospitals do so in the majority of wards.

GP sessions in the Emergency Department (ED) are planned to cover the “most beneficial” times when referrals and presentations of a nature that match the skills of a GP would be most used, Beaumont Hospital has indicated.

Clinical decision-making has been confirmed as a factor behind major variations in hospitals’ admission patterns, with Letterkenny, for example, having a propensity to admit 40 per cent of patients from EDs, the HSE National Director for Acute Hospitals has revealed.

There was a significant reduction in the number of patients waiting for longer than 24 hours in emergency departments (EDs) in December, the latest HSE Performance Report shows.

Long-stay patients account for more than half of bed-days at one major Dublin hospital, yet just 12 per cent of patients go through that hospital’s Acute Medical Assessment Unit, reports Gary Culliton.