More than 850 hospital bed days have been lost to the HSE this year after closures, amid the ongoing pressure on the health service due to a surge in hospital attendances
A total of 120 were lost due to staffing issues and further 113 due to Covid-19.
Due to what HSE chief clinical officer Dr Colm Henry termed the “whole system response” of the health service in recent days, the number of patients waiting to be admitted on Tuesday is thought to be unlikely to climb as high as last Tuesday’s record figure of 923. There were 489 patients waiting to be admitted to hospital on Monday, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, down from 535 on Friday, which is normally a quieter day.
Separately, private nursing-home owners have provided the HSE with a list of available beds in the facilities following a meeting between the Executive and Nursing Home Ireland on Monday. A HSE statement said hospitals and CHOs are talking to nursing homes on a daily basis to discharge patients.
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