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OVER 9,400 HOSPITAL patients were forced to wait without a bed in July this year – the highest number ever recorded in July, according to a new report by the analysis by the INMO.
Compared to last year, there has been an increase of 33%. When records began in 2006, there were 3,460 patients on trolleys in July, just over a third of this month’s figure.
Among the 9,439 patients were 45 children.
Hospitals with the highest numbers include:
INMO Director of Industrial Relations, Tony Fitzpatrick said: “Each day there are hundreds of patients languishing in corridors, waiting for a hospital bed. Currently over 700 patients cannot be discharged from hospital. In the meantime, hundreds of frontline nursing and midwifery posts are currently vacant due to the HSE’s dysfunctional and bureaucratic employment control processes.
“Vital roles across all services, at all grades, in all hospitals are left unfilled. This has direct negative consequences for patients.
“We expect increased demands on the health service in winter, but now even summer sees patients crammed into corridors on trolleys. It is creating unacceptable risks for patients and health workers alike.”
Labour’s Alan Kelly criticised the figures sand said trolley numbers for the month of July have been completely unacceptable and are “a sign of things to come for the bleak winter months in our health service”.
He said: “Month on month, figures like this are released and they haven’t shocked or shamed the Government or indeed the HSE into taking any action that has any meaningful deliverables.
“The INMO have not recorded a day yet this year where there has been less than 250 people on trolleys. We should not have to accept these kind of figures as the new normal.”
A spokeswoman for the HSE said: “Acute hospitals are continuing to see a year on year increase in the number of patients requiring treatment and care.
“Last week Emergency Department patient attendances were up 0.3% on the same week last year while hospital admissions were down 1.3%.
“Year to date ED attendances at the end of June were 4.4% higher when compared to last year.
“119,610 patient attendances were recorded in our 29 Emergency Departments in June, the latest month for which validated data is available. 32,295 of these patients were admitted to hospital for further treatment.
“The HSE regrets that any patient should have to wait for admission from ED to a hospital ward. All patients admitted from ED remain under the care of our ED staff until they can transfer to the appropriate hospital ward.”
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For legal reasons the following may or may not have happened :) I was once in a Nissan bluebird where an entire under 16 football team was being brought to a match because the bus never turned up. 7 in the back seat sitting on knees, 3 on the front passenger seat and 5 in the boot, two lying down tight to the back seat and 3 sitting across the boot opening, boot was left open. We got there and we won :)
@Pat Maher: Love it Pat. Brilliant!!!
‘Maybe they were making a trunk call’ Ouuu! A real zinger than one! The lads down the station must have been falling around the place laughing.
@Nicky O’Donnell: Now they want to be comedians on top of everything !!
Surely should have been boot-y call
@Nicky O’Donnell: and then it went on social meeja, it was class
@Nicky O’Donnell: I bet your great fun in work
I had eight in a starlet once
@P.J. Nolan: Your mother must be so proud !
@Shane Freeney:
Ha ha, maybe I could have worded that better….
When I was in school our PE teacher brought the full U’12 football team to an away match in his Fiat Ritmo.
@Nick Allen:
Many a underage team went through that particular ritual.
Seriously? They posted that on Twitter?!
Keystone cops.
@Paul Watchorn: Why? Real police only tweet about murders?
Its the Garda TRAFFIC twitter account
Would expect nothing less from a yaris driver, across the board yaris drivers are the worst drivers on the road.
@Let free speech live: Was this your postgraduate thesis?
@Let free speech live: I’d like a journal fact check on this, please
@Let free speech live: up the yaris!
@Let free speech live: Thank god someone else thinks that, I thought I was the only one. What is it about them?!
@Let free speech live: Not true.
It’s the Nissan Micra drivers that hold that accolade.
@Dave Sherman: same class of driver but more yaris drivers than micra drivers around.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: It was actually and it was very well received.
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: I would welcome it, after 10 years on the road as a hgv driver believe me they are consistently the worst. If a yaris driver indicates left there is a strong chance they will turn right.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: Ok so that was the funniest thing I’ve read in a while lol thank you !! Needed a giggle today !!!
@Dave Sherman: They’re one and the same, the Micra drivers are moving on to the Yaris now.
They found a right spare in the boot didn’t They!
Obviously someone was dropping their mother in law home.
Reminds me of my childhood back of my das opel rekord with all my cousin and sometimes my gran n aunt on holidays to Wexford. Good times so glad I have dose memory’s something about those days. I think the 2000s is truly the first time things are different.
This droll gombeen in the garda needs to be hauled in for his droll twitter remarks, the Garda line ‘we don’t comment on individual cases’ never applies to him. Who is this droll troll civil servant?
@Tom Phelan: He could easily be your brother or father Tom ‘the bore’ Phelan!
@Joe Conlon: there’s no way any member of my family could be that deadbeat
@Tom Phelan: haha, fair enough
Why was he hidden? Was he ugly??
@WJH: How do you know it was a “he”?
@Tricia Golden: Does it really matter??? Seriously???
Six of us in a J.C.B. Five of us squeezed round the driver. All was fine until we went over a bump and someone fell on the back acter (spelling?) control.. And 10 in a Volkswagon Variant, an estate car from the 1970s also known as a “deviant.” Two in front, four in back seat, one on the floor (it was rear engined so no transmission tunnel,) and three in the estate part.
Who’s there ??
Dad?
Why is the photo reversed ?
The car is pulled in on the left on the way out of Limerick on the ‘dark road’, sorry Dock road.
No one – they’re never there when you need them !
Knock Knock !
A Garda with a sense of humor ‘ trunk call ‘ . Who would have thought ?
@Mary Mc Carthy: They often crack jokes on Twitter, what of it? Isn’t it an odder thing to do, putting a passenger in the boot?
Knock Knock !
Ok waiting fir the mini driver. Any minute now…
Turns out
It was 15
AND they were women
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