The Minister for Health denied the timing of the announcement on Thursday of a new assessment of emergency department services in the midwest was an election stunt
The Minister of Health denied the timing of the announcement on Thursday of a new assessment of emergency department services in the midwest was an election stuntMinister for Health Stephen Donnelly TD speaking to nurses at the 105th annual delegate conference in Croke Park, Dublin this morning. Photograph: Sam Boal/Collins Photos
“What Government has to do is consider is that there was a record amount of funding provided for hiring new staff, 6000 new staff but 8000 were hired. That is something that we are still we are still resolving,” he said. It is still short 230 nurses, the union says, although the Minister contested that figure, arguing there were a number of issues involved including “absenteeism”.“The single biggest part of the waiting list the national waiting list is people waiting for their first outpatient appointment with a hospital consultant. We are tracking very carefully the number of outpatient appointments per consultant and unfortunately, in many hospitals, the numbers are falling.
In his speech to the conference, meanwhile, the Minister said he was fully committed to the implementation of agreements on safe staffing levels in hospitals.
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