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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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