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Recruitment ban at the core of now year-round dangerous overcrowding

– but only a 20% increase on August last year, as figures this high are fast becoming the norm. The daily national trolley figure was also higher every day in August than the same day in 2018, with a 28% higher average daily total. The hospitals with the high- est figures in August were: • University Hospital Limerick – 1,197 patients • Cork University Hospital

figures signal an even more dangerous winter, when extra demands are typically placed on hospitals. “At the core of the prob- lem is staffing, as there are well over 1,300 nursing and midwifery vacancies in Ire- land’s acute hospitals. This is no time for recruitment bans. Vacancies need to be filled so that patients get the care they need. The HSE’s recruitment ban has got to go.”

– 1,051 patients • University Hospital Galway – 655 patients • South Tipperary General Hos- pital – 597 patients • University Hospital Waterford – 561 patients. INMO general secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha said: “This is the tragic ongoing reality in Ireland’s health service. To see nearly 10,000 patients on trolleys is bad in itself, but this is a summer month. These

More than 9,500 admitted patients were forced to wait without a bed in Irish hospitals in August, according INMO trolley/ward watch analysis. The total figure of 9,562 – of which 48 were children – is the highest ever recorded in the month of August. The record-breaking total represents a 197% increase on August 2007, a 167% increase on August 2006 – the year INMO trolley records began

Table 1. INMO trolley andwardwatch analysis (August 2006 – 2019)

Aug 2006

Aug 2007

Aug 2008

Aug 2009

Aug 2010

Aug 2011

Aug 2012

Aug 2013

Aug 2014

Aug. 2015

Aug 2016

Aug 2017

Aug 2018

Aug 2019

Hospital

Beaumont Hospital

32

408 259 315

713 255 487

520 152 385 199 145 174 354 237

504 359 354 292

596 354 333 221 126

304 386 328

508 464

490 271 285 230 165 191 188 n/a

678 364 218 273 101 335 395 n/a

335 138 316

265 187 436 304 117 134 381 n/a

177 260 288 266

91

Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown

162 197 206

241 489 331

Mater Hospital

82 40 47

Naas General Hospital St Colmcille’s Hospital St James’s Hospital

68 42 41

2122

65

95 n/a

39

48

96 31

171

n/a 99

n/a 75

8

120 271 319

77

60

104

108 284 121

St Vincent’s University Hospital

385 227

545 399

509 457

587 335

432

74

289 330

387 390

Tallaght Hospital

47 n/a n/a n/a

357

National Children’s Hospital,Tallaght Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin Temple Street Children’s University Hospital

n/a n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a

n/a n/a n/a

n/a 14 11

1

10 34

Eastern total

1,456

2,077

2,335

2,166

2,602

2,629

1,793

1,676

1,820

2,364

1,397

1,824

1,734

2,049

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a 42

7

15 27

68 67

37 13

78

Bantry General Hospital Cavan General Hospital Cork University Hospital

n/a

216 319 330 131 90 16 31 94 13 n/a 23 56 12 n/a 76 94 29 n/a 5 301 77 2 34

141 189

263 329

177 272

168 453

382 418

142 151

228 261

84

149

115 152

399 235

473 128

457 241

604 359

1,051

Letterkenny General Hospital Louth County Hospital Mayo University Hospital Mercy University Hospital, Cork

59

24 n/a 28 69

35 12 64 38

36 n/a

70 n/a

32 n/a

7

409

4

n/a 15

n/a 10

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

97

126 117

8

109 137 109 20 77 24 n/a n/a 13 32 n/a 604 277 153

105

175 243 254 287 290 20 n/a n/a 35 40 n/a 391 144 470 197 400 148 610 291 101

114 256 391 260 452

118 183 304 215 431

115 333 203 114 244

108

44

122 178 100 22 n/a n/a n/a 36 45 n/a 81 165 166 139 146

130 410

98

Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise Midland Regional Hospital,Tullamore Mid Western Regional Hospital, Ennis

2 8 2 9 4

5

5 7 7

46

264 125 89 20 n/a n/a 93 97 n/a 24 776

149

13

9

82

77

5

71 26 n/a n/a

169 n/a n/a n/a 33 48 n/a 71 82 84 346 319

267

17 17 n/a

23 n/a n/a 57 67 25 34 33 n/a 289 256

5

n/a n/a n/a

n/a n/a

20 n/a 40 89

n/a

Monaghan General Hospital Nenagh General Hospital

n/a 91 34 10 70 82 n/a 55 32 n/a 13 9 123

2

17

Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda

293

236

680

93

192

Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan

90

50 62

56 49 n/a

164

53

106 129

Portiuncula Hospital

2

52 n/a 90

162

Roscommon County Hospital Sligo University Hospital South Tipperary General Hospital St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny University Hospital Galway University Hospital Kerry University Hospital Limerick University Hospital Waterford Wexford General Hospital

14 13 52 n/a

106 140

n/a

n/a

158 115 255 458 108 618 159

264 342 365 619 300 969 435 220

416 597 455 655 266

4

1

489 432 643 170 835 486 197

13

52

55

238

232

554

195

9

9

37

70

81

49

95

85 25

105

186

342

247 120

224 180

458

1,197

18

64

76

47

561 286

293

189

344

140

490

44

73

135

70

Country total

2,242 3,698

1,142 3,219

1,780 4,115

1,877 4,043

2,322 4,924

3,995 6,624

2,622 4,415

2,237 3,913

2,828 4,648

4,154 6,518

4,739 6,136

5,957 7,781

6,202 7,936

7,513 9,562

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Of which were under 16 48 Percentage increase/decrease:  2018 compared to 2019: 20% 2014 compared to 2019: 106% 2010 compared to 2019: 94% 2006 compared to 2019: 159% n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 30

2017 compared to 2019: 23% 2013 compared to 2019: 144% 2009 compared to 2019: 137% 2016 compared to 2019: 56% 2012 compared to 2019: 117% 2008 compared to 2019: 132% 2015 compared to 2019: 47% 2011 compared to 2019: 44% 2007 compared to 2019: 197%

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