trolley

Um.

We may need more trolleys.

The level of hospital overcrowding has deteriorated further with 551 patients waiting today for admission to a bed. It represents the fourth highest level of overcrowding recorded since emergency department and ward waiting figures were collected by the Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Organisation.

Gwan Leo.

551 patients waiting for admission to bed – INMO (RTÉ)

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11 thoughts on “How Many?

  1. Soundings

    These numbers seem to be all over the place. It was 600 there one day in January and two days later it was 279. Are the high numbers statistically significant? I get the feeling they are, because the recent record spikes have been reached without winter flu or vomiting viruses.

    You can pour a gallon into a one quart bottle. Maybe we should be concentrating the stats-focus on the bottle, how many consultants were working yesterday, how many doctors and nurses. The truth appears to be that we’re cutting back the manpower. Wouldn’t it make more sense to concentrate the stats on that?

    1. Don Pidgeoni

      Depends how they got those numbers down. I imagine a lot of it was cancelling operations to free up beds and kicking people out slightly before they were ready, neither of which are great outcomes.

    2. ollie

      “we” are not reducing staffing numbers, the minister for health has that responsibility. it’s his fault, no one elses.

  2. Kieran NYC

    On one hand you have to welcome ridiculous figures like these. They put pressure on proper budgets to be put in place, enough money to be allocated, and help force reform.

    Better the numbers out in the open than swept under the carpet.

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