23 people on trolleys in Sligo University Hospital
The numbers waiting on trolleys and in overflow areas of wards in the north west remains high once again today according to Irish Nurses and Midwives Figures. There are 41 people waiting for a bed in the hospitals in Sligo and Letterkenny. At Sligo University Hospital there are 21 people…
27 people waiting for hospital beds in northwest
There are 27 people waiting for a bed in the northwest this lunchtime according to trolley watch reports. Sligo University Hospital has two people waiting, one on a trolley and another in the overflow area of wards. Meanwhile Letterkenny University Hospital has 25 people awaiting a bed with 16 of…
37 waiting for a hospital bed in north west
There are 37 people waiting for hospital beds in the north west today according to the latest trolley watch report. University Hospital Letterkenny has 28 waiting for a bed with 16 on trolleys and a further 12 waiting in the overflow area of wards. University Hospital Sligo has nine people…
12 patients waiting in north west hospitals today
There are 12 patients on hospital trolleys in the north west today. That’s made up of 10 in Letterkenny and two in Sligo. In University Hospital Galway, there 28 people on trolleys. There are over 350 people are on trolleys at hospitals across the country this lunchtime – with 27…
Trolley numbers falling in north west
The numbers on trolleys in the north west have fallen significantly today. There are 13 people waiting for a bed in Letterkenny University Hospital with nobody waiting in Sligo. This is down from a high of almost 60 people waiting in north west hospitals on a single day last week.…
22 people on hospital trolleys in north west
There are over 40 patients on trolleys in the north west today. The latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show that the situation has deteriorated again at Letterkenny University Hospital where there are 31 people waiting for a bed today. There are 12 people waiting at Sligo…
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…