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04/10/2017
Over 8,100 Patients Waited On Trolleys In September - INMO
New figures have revealed a total of 8,101 patients were waiting on trolleys or wards for admission to a hospital bed during September.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation's (INMO) data represents a 7% increase on 2016 and a 132% increase compared with the same period a decade ago.
Overall, during the first nine months of 2017, a record 73,556 admitted patients were waiting on trolleys.
Hospitals with the greatest levels of overcrowding in the past month were;
• University Hospital Limerick: 902;
• Cork University Hospital: 628;
• University Hospital Galway: 598;
• University Hospital Waterford: 505;
• Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 448.
INMO General Secretary Liam Doran said "urgent talks" are now required with both HSE and HIQA.
"This record level of overcrowding, as detailed in the latest trolley/ward watch figures, when combined with the abject failure of the HSE to ensure safe staffing, in these overcrowded departments, must be recognised as a deepening crisis requiring immediate attention by a number of agencies.
"It is quite clear that, in many hospitals, the daily situation is beyond breaking point with patients left without dignity and privacy. Furthermore, due to the failure to employ additional staff, consistent with an agreed dependency tool and best practice, the care of those patients is being compromised.
"Urgent talks are now required, with both the HSE and Department of Health, to ascertain what measures, including pay incentives, they intend to put in place, as we enter the winter period, in response to the severe shortage of beds and staff confirmed by the latest trolley/ward watch figures."
(LM)
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation's (INMO) data represents a 7% increase on 2016 and a 132% increase compared with the same period a decade ago.
Overall, during the first nine months of 2017, a record 73,556 admitted patients were waiting on trolleys.
Hospitals with the greatest levels of overcrowding in the past month were;
• University Hospital Limerick: 902;
• Cork University Hospital: 628;
• University Hospital Galway: 598;
• University Hospital Waterford: 505;
• Tallaght Hospital, Dublin 448.
INMO General Secretary Liam Doran said "urgent talks" are now required with both HSE and HIQA.
"This record level of overcrowding, as detailed in the latest trolley/ward watch figures, when combined with the abject failure of the HSE to ensure safe staffing, in these overcrowded departments, must be recognised as a deepening crisis requiring immediate attention by a number of agencies.
"It is quite clear that, in many hospitals, the daily situation is beyond breaking point with patients left without dignity and privacy. Furthermore, due to the failure to employ additional staff, consistent with an agreed dependency tool and best practice, the care of those patients is being compromised.
"Urgent talks are now required, with both the HSE and Department of Health, to ascertain what measures, including pay incentives, they intend to put in place, as we enter the winter period, in response to the severe shortage of beds and staff confirmed by the latest trolley/ward watch figures."
(LM)
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