Shortage of nurses adding to overcrowding crisis
A severe shortage of nurses is making overcrowding at Letterkenny University Hospital worse. That’s according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives north west representative. Yesterday the numbers waiting for beds at the hospital reached a high of 45 people. Today there are 24 people waiting for a bed in the…
UHL guidelines being ignored by public says INMO representative
The public are ignoring guidelines from University Hospital Letterkenny and it is contributing greatly to overcrowding. That’s the view of Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation representative for the north west Maura Hickey. The hospital has been overcrowded on a number of occasions in the past two weeks, reaching a high…
Letterkenny is most overcrowded hospital in country
University Hospital Letterkenny is the most overcrowded hospital in the country today. There are 45 people waiting on hospital trolleys and in the overflow area of wards according to the latest trolley watch figures. It is a rise of 13 from the numbers waiting in the hospital yesterday. The full…
High numbers on trolleys in north west
There are exceptionally high numbers on trolleys at hospitals across the west and north west today. The number of people waiting for a bed in Letterkenny University Hospital is now 32. There are 33 people waiting on trolleys in the emergency department and on wards at University Hospital Galway. There…
25 people on trolleys in Letterkenny Hospital
25 people are waiting on a bed in Letterkenny University Hospital this lunchtime. Figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show that 18 people are on trolleys with a further 7 waiting in overflow areas of wards. The Saolta hospital group confirmed to Ocean FM there are a number…
15 people waiting for hospital bed in Letterkenny
There are 15 people waiting on a bed at hospitals in the north west according to the latest trolley watch report. All 15 are in Letterkenny University Hospital with none waiting on a bed in Sligo. Nationally there are over 380 people waiting in hospitals according to the Irish Nurses…
25 people on trolleys in Sligo University Hospital
There are twenty-five people on trolleys today at Sligo University Hospital. The latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show that it has the second highest figures in the country University hospital Limerick and Cork University hospital have 27 people on trolleys today, followed by 25 in Sligo.…