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The number of patients on trolleys at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) has jumped almost tenfold from 2,422 in 2009 when casualty cover was removed from three hospitals to 21,445 in 2023, according to new figures produced by a local lobby group. Following the cancellation of surgery at UHL in recent weeks, the number of patients on trolleys fell from more than a 100 to 48 on August 29 before climbing back up to 78 on Wednesday. The Health Information and Quality Authority is compiling a report examining the need for a second emergency department in the Mid-West, which it says will not be published until the summer of 2025. A new document prepared by the Friends of Ennis Hospital, which has been submitted to HIQA presents a case for the upgrading of Ennis Hospital This document, prepared by Friends of Ennis Hospital, lays out the case for the upgrading of Ennis Hospital to a Model 3, which would allow for …

Overcrowding continues to cause major difficulties at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) where there were 75 patients on trolleys on Monday following a very busy weekend of admissions. This trolley total was the highest in the country, and was 30 more than Letterkenny University Hospital where 45 patients were waiting to access an in-patient bed. On Sunday, the UL Hospitals’ Group issued a public appeal for patients to consider all alternative care options before presenting to the ED in UHL. The group admitted patients are experiencing long wait times following a week of very high demand for emergency services. In a statement issued to the Clare Champion, the group outlined every effort is being made by management and staff to reduce these wait times and to maximise patient flow. The group regrets that any patient has to wait for extended periods of time. During September 2021, daily attendances at the ED averaged 240 an increase of 22%, compared with 195 in …

Forty-seven patients were waiting on trolleys, with no available beds, at University Hospital Limerick early this Monday morning. Following on from this, the Irish Nurses & Midwives Organisation is calling for the implementation of the Major Emergency Plan at University Hospital Limerick to bring about “a level of control and safety at the emergency department.” “At 8am this morning 47 patients, who were admitted in the last 24-48 hours for care, but for whom no beds were available, have been left on trolleys in the emergency department. This is catastrophic and the Major Emergency Plan should have been utilised by management at the hospital to protect the patients, the staff and to assist to make the hospital safe, said Mary Fogarty, INMO industrial relations officer. Ms Fogarty noted that despite the fact that the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) in June 2014 detailed a range of risks resulting from the overcrowding in UHL, it still continues. “The INMO has …