€4.8m spent on agency staff at SUH
A Sligo councillor says the HSE is spending ‘staggering’ amounts of money on agency staff because of the failure to deal with, what he calls, a ‘recruitment and retention crisis.’ Sinn Fein Councillor Chris Manus says that for the first nine months of this year, more than €4.8m was spent…
Calls for a longer-term commitment to mobile mammography unit in Sligo
A Cancer campaigner in Sligo is calling for a clearer committment to the future of the mobile mammography unit at the hospital. The long-awaited unit which carries out mammograms for breast cancer patients who are five years post-treatment started seeing patients at Sligo University Hospital at the end of 2016.…
81-year old woman waited 15 hours on a trolley in Sligo
An 81-year-old woman had to wait for 15 hours on a trolley at the Emergency Department at Sligo University Hospital this week. There has been 61 patients waiting on trolleys this week at the hospital according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. Tuesday was the busiest day at the…
26 people on trolleys at North West hospitals
There are 26 people on trolleys at hospitals in the North West today. 16 people are waiting for a bed at Letterkenny University Hospital while ten people are waiting at Sligo University Hospital. There are almost 500 people on trolleys at hospitals around the country today with Limerick and Cork…
Twenty three on trolleys today
There are 23 people on hospital trolleys in the North West today. That’s made up of 15 in Letterkenny University Hospital and 8 in Sligo University Hospital Twelve of those in Letterkenny are on wards while in Sligo, seven are in corridors and overflow areas. Overall today, there are more…
35 people on trolleys at Letterkenny Hospital
The numbers waiting on trolleys in Letterkenny University Hospital remain very high today with 35 people waiting for admission. The numbers waiting are the third highest in the country according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Trolley Watch report. The full capacity protocol has been in place at the hospital…
Nursing homes & cross border deals can help alleviate trolley crisis in North West
As the overcrowding problem continues in hospitals throughout the country, there are 18 beds available in seven nursing homes in County Donegal that could be used to ease the crisis. That’s according to a survey carried out two days ago by Nursing Homes Ireland, the umbrella body for the country’s…