Hospital ward closed while people linger on trolleys
A Donegal TD is claiming that a hospital ward in the county is lying idle at the same time as the trolley crisis continues. Sinn Fein Deputy Pearse Doherty says 19 short-stay beds are available in a ward in Letterkenny University Hospital. But he says the hospital hasn’t the resources…
Forty-six people on trolleys in the North West today
There are 46 people on trolleys in Letterkenny and Sligo today. 28 of these patients are waiting at Letterkenny University Hospital and 18 in Sligo according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. The INMO says today’s figures are nearly 30% higher than the numbers waiting this day last year.
Hospital trolleys: No one waiting for bed in Letterkenny, 25 waiting in Sligo
There is no one on a trolley waiting for a bed in Letterkenny University Hospital today, according to figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. However, there are 25 people waiting on a trolley at Sligo University Hospital. Six of these are in wards; the other 19 are in…
Homecare CEO says there is nowhere for the bedblockers to go
649 patients are on trolleys and wards this morning, down from a record high of 714 yesterday. University Hospital Limerick is still the most overcrowded, with 58 patients waiting on a bed. Today the numbers are down to 21 in Sligo University Hospital and to 14 in Letterkenny University Hospital.…
Thousands of new beds promised for Irish hospitals
The Irish Nurses and Midwives organisation is welcoming the news of additional beds and investment in hospitals announced in the National planning Framework yesterday. 2,600 acute hospital beds and 4,500 community beds are to be provided along with investment of €10.9b in the health sector. Sligo University Hospital is to…
Forty patients on trolleys at hospitals in the North West
There are 40 people on trolleys today in Sligo and Letterkenny Hospitals today. There are 23 people waiting at Letterkenny University Hospital while there are 17 in Sligo. There are almost 600 patients waiting at hospitals around the country according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. Galway and Cork…
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…