Health staff to be asked to work voluntarily over June bank holiday weekend over fears of overcrowding surge
HSE managers are writing to staff asking them to change their deployment arrangements to cover the Saturday, Sunday and Monday of the weekend, he said, similar to the initiative undertaken during the height of winter overcrowding in hospitals last January.While he was not in a position to change current staff contracts, he said his aim was that future contracts would provide for five days of work over the seven days of the week in all disciplines, and not just between Monday and Friday.
Mr Gloster confirmed the traditional HSE winter plan has been “shelved” to be replaced by a year-round approach to be published shortly, as well as a three-year approach to planning scheduled care.Emergency department attendances are up 10 per cent so far this year compared with before the Covid pandemic, and referrals to hospitals are at an all-time high, he said.
The average number of delayed discharges of patients from hospitals has fallen now to about 500, from 600 earlier in the year. Mr Gloster said community intervention teams are now available to see residents in nursing homes, whereas previously the residents would only have had access to nursing home staff and, sometimes, a GP.
In St Vincent’s hospital in Dublin, for example, community staff are visiting residents in local nursing homes who might require hospitalisation. Just 9 per cent of visits result in a hospital admission, he pointed out.
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