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Panic is strongly recommended
Dr Garrett FitzGerald Despite a ‘same as ever’ approach to the trolley crisis, the health authorities somehow expect a different outcome, says Dr Garrett FitzGerald. Met a friend and colleague in the...
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We must be off our trolleys
Dr Mick Molloy Returning to the issue of ED overcrowding, Dr Mick Molloy laments the lack of progress since the publication of the Tribal Secta A&E mapping review in October 2005. At the time of...
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A tale of two trolleys
Dara Gantly Dara Gantly examines the Minister for Health’s promise to the people of Ireland and hopes that he does not rue the day he looked us in the eye and vowed to end the trolley crisis It was...
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INMO is ‘refusing’ ED trolley move to ease overcrowding
By Gary Culliton. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) is “strongly opposed” to an escalation policy for emergency departments (including Full Capacity Protocol) and “has consistently...
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Escalation ‘is part of Croke Park’– Reilly
By Gary Culliton. The ‘Escalation Plan’ for hospital emergency departments (EDs) is part of the Croke Park agreement and will be implemented, the Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has said....
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350 die ‘because of overcrowding in EDs’
By Gary Culliton. An estimated 350 additional patients are dying across the country every year because of chronic overcrowding in emergency departments (EDs), the President of the Irish Association for...
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Blueprint for ED network
By Gary Culliton. Acute Medical Units and Acute Medical Assessment Units (AMUs/AMAUs) should not compete for resources with emergency departments (EDs), a new report has warned, adding that there...
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‘Inevitable’ patients will die in overcrowded EDs
Pic: Ryan McVay/Getty The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) is “gravely concerned” about the patient safety implications of the increasing numbers of patients on trolleys in Emergency...
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Emergency Department Task Force meets today
The second Emergency Department Task Force is meeting today (January 14) in Dublin, against the backdrop of an overall easing in the number of patients on trolleys across the country in emergency...
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Hospital overcrowding is ‘causing deaths’
Prof Trevor Duffy being interviewed by RTÉ’s Fergal Bowers in Kilkenny One in seven deaths in Irish hospitals owing to patient safety risks could be avoidable if German research holds true for Ireland,...
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