Tag Archives: Emergency departments

The Emergency Department (ED) Task Force’s Review Phase site visits to all acute hospitals are due to be completed by the middle of this month.

The most frequent attender at the Mater Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) in 2014 presented for treatment 404 times, often re-registering numerous times on the same day, a new study has shown.

There is little evidence to back locating primary care services in emergency departments (EDs) or urgent-care facilities in a bid to curb patient demand and improve throughput, finds a review of the available evidence, published online in the Emergency Medicine Journal.

GPs are seeking greater involvement in hospitals’ boards and emergency departments (EDs), with two motions on the issue proposed by the Mayo GP Branch and passed by attendees at the IMO AGM in Sligo.

Dear Editor, This past year has not been good for general practice or hospital medicine, neither from the perspective of the patient, or the doctor.

Dear Editor, In relation to the ongoing trolley crises in our emergency departments (EDs), I have the following comments to make.

Between 25 and 40 per cent of presentations at Emergency Departments (EDs) are limb problems, an analysis of triage categories has shown.

Dear Editor, I was interested to read Dr Brendan McCann’s recent letter in Irish Medical Times (‘Same-day service provided by GPs can help ease trolley crisis’, February 19, 2016), in which he alluded to the role GPs can play in allaying problems in relation to ED attendances for acute minor illnesses.

A review of the GP out-of-hours service is under way and is due to conclude in 2016.

In the first 20 days of 2016 there were 64,952 attendances across all emergency departments (EDs) — up 5,415 on 2015 figures.