The group’s TrolleyWatch figures state 72,391 patients have gone without a bed in 2023
Nursing unions have raised a “red flag” about another winter trolley crisis amid concerns about the number of people left without a hospital bed in July.
University Hospital Limerick has been the most overcrowded hospital to date this year, with 11,787 people left without beds over the course of the year so far. “The HSE must set out very clearly what measures it intends to take to reduce the levels of overcrowding in our hospitals in the coming months,” she said.
“Last week, HIQA published inspection reports into some of Ireland’s busiest hospitals. “They show that there is a pattern emerging across the vast majority of hospitals that unsafe levels of staffing is compromising both patient and staff safety.
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