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Overcrowding
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20 Mar 2024
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20
The Morning Lead
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40
All time
Overcrowding
HSE dispute INMO Trolly Watch figures, saying 2023 is not a record year
Updated
19 Dec 2023
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HSE's Winter Plan
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27 Sep 2023
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The Morning Lead
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18 Sep 2023
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17 Sep 2023
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Hospital overcrowding
Donnelly: Emergency Department Taskforce will meet next Monday
11 Sep 2023
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Trolley Watch
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31 Aug 2023
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33
Overcrowding
'Winter trolley numbers in May': INMO slam hospital wait times as almost 12,000 without beds
31 May 2023
5.1k
23
Industrial Action
Limerick Hospital ICU nurses call for two beds to close until more staff are recruited
12 May 2023
5.1k
10
INMO
'I was punched in the face': ED nurse on why there's no appetite for strike but it may be 'only way'
Updated
4 May 2023
20.7k
20
staffing crisis
More than seven in ten Irish nurses have considered quitting their jobs - INMO survey
3 May 2023
7.8k
18
Hospital overcrowding
Consultants say staffing plan is needed for €1 billion hospital bed-building initiative to work
6 Apr 2023
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7
Hospital overcrowding
Tánaiste says governance and management issues within overall HSE need evaluation
Updated
11 Jan 2023
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18
Hospitals
HSE clinical chief says asking hospital staff to work across weekends 'not sustainable'
Updated
9 Jan 2023
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35
winter surge
Immunologist says stronger advice on mask-wearing needed amid surge in respiratory viruses
7 Jan 2023
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63
Overcrowding
Minister says patients that could be treated in minor injury units are turning up in A&E Depts
Updated
6 Jan 2023
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57
Overcrowding
Number of patients on hospital trolleys hits highest level since pandemic began
13 Dec 2021
33.6k
60
University Hospital Limerick
'Something has to give': INMO asks Health Minister to intervene at overcrowded Limerick hospital
28 Jul 2021
15.9k
18
Trolleys
Over 53,000 patients went without beds in Irish hospitals in 2020, INMO says
31 Dec 2020
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36
Opinion
Dr Anthony O'Connor: History matters, but the record numbers on trolleys should trump commemoration debates
Dr Anthony O'Connor
8 Jan 2020
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Trolley crisis
Harris summoned before emergency Health Committee meeting as 621 people wait on trolleys
Updated
8 Jan 2020
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44
Hospital overcrowding
'A national scandal': 2019 was the worst year on record for hospital overcrowding as 118,000 went without a bed
2 Jan 2020
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34
INMO
Worst November on record for hospital overcrowding as 9,679 wait on trolleys
2 Dec 2018
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100
Opinion
Hospital consultant: 'I'd like to dispel a few myths for people about overcrowding'
Dr Anthony O'Connor
5 Jan 2018
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198
Hospital overcrowding
'If this many people were dying in another way, there’d be war over it'
21 Jan 2017
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34
Trolleys
Reilly 'acknowledges discomfort and distress' of patients on trolleys
22 Jan 2014
5.4k
50
Healthscare
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59
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