Critical overcrowding at Beaumont - INO

[pfkf1]

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaki ... king66.htm

Overcrowding in a Dublin emergency department was critical today with 46 patients waiting on trolleys and chairs for admission, it was claimed.

The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) said the situation was so bad at Beaumont Hospital that emergency ambulances were detained at the department for more than two hours.

The hospital said it was aware of extra pressure on the service and trying to address it.

"Once again patients and staff in the A&E department of Beaumont Hospital find themselves enduring disgraceful conditions as a result of overcrowding," said Edward Mathews, INO Industrial Relations Officer.

"Horror stories are being told to us about a 90-year-old on a chair for 24 hours.

"It is at full capacity and has been at full capacity for a number of days now. Staff are totally exasperated and patients are in deplorable conditions.

"It is a very serious situation."

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considering, the amount of money spent on the Health service by this government over the last 11 years, is it not a disgrace that we still are having these problems in our hospitals.

who is accountable for this situation?

I'll answer, that nobody because FF/PD/Greens are in government, and God forbid anyone should take any responsibility for anything.

[NotDevsSon]

A scandalous situation.

[rkeane]

Indeed this is a terrible situation....but this is just the nurses making noises so they can look for yet another pay hike. I'm a long term patient of Beaumont Hospital and I spend weeks at a time in the kip with progressive MS...the nurses are doing less and less work every year. They have assistants doing jobs they used to do...yet they still want more money.

Sorry for the rant...I think I should take my medication.

[qtman]

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0117/breaking66.htm

Overcrowding in a Dublin emergency department was critical today with 46 patients waiting on trolleys and chairs for admission, it was claimed.

The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) said the situation was so bad at Beaumont Hospital that emergency ambulances were detained at the department for more than two hours.

The hospital said it was aware of extra pressure on the service and trying to address it.

"Once again patients and staff in the A&E department of Beaumont Hospital find themselves enduring disgraceful conditions as a result of overcrowding," said Edward Mathews, INO Industrial Relations Officer.

"Horror stories are being told to us about a 90-year-old on a chair for 24 hours.

"It is at full capacity and has been at full capacity for a number of days now. Staff are totally exasperated and patients are in deplorable conditions.

"It is a very serious situation."

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considering, the amount of money spent on the Health service by this government over the last 11 years, is it not a disgrace that we still are having these problems in our hospitals.

who is accountable for this situation?

I'll answer, that nobody because FF/PD/Greens are in government, and God forbid anyone should take any responsibility for anything.

Terrible.

Our immediate response should be to give Nurses a couple of extra hours off and a 10% pay increase.

Only removing staff from hospitals and diverting money away from patient care into wages for staff who are sitting at home can resolve this situation.

[rkeane]

lol

[FakeViking]

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0117/breaking66.htm

Overcrowding in a Dublin emergency department was critical today with 46 patients waiting on trolleys and chairs for admission, it was claimed.

The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) said the situation was so bad at Beaumont Hospital that emergency ambulances were detained at the department for more than two hours.

The hospital said it was aware of extra pressure on the service and trying to address it.

"Once again patients and staff in the A&E department of Beaumont Hospital find themselves enduring disgraceful conditions as a result of overcrowding," said Edward Mathews, INO Industrial Relations Officer.

"Horror stories are being told to us about a 90-year-old on a chair for 24 hours.

"It is at full capacity and has been at full capacity for a number of days now. Staff are totally exasperated and patients are in deplorable conditions.

"It is a very serious situation."

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considering, the amount of money spent on the Health service by this government over the last 11 years, is it not a disgrace that we still are having these problems in our hospitals.

who is accountable for this situation?

I'll answer, that nobody because FF/PD/Greens are in government, and God forbid anyone should take any responsibility for anything.

Terrible.

Our immediate response should be to give Nurses a couple of extra hours off and a 10% pay increase.

Only removing staff from hospitals and diverting money away from patient care into wages for staff who are sitting at home can resolve this situation.

It's clear your razor sharp intellect is at it's peak again, QTMan.

[Limerick Lad]

Last night's Prime Time highlighted the accuracy of the INO's reports of the number of patients on trolleys with an internal report from the Mater Hospital exposing that there was between a 30-60% discrepancy between the HSE's figures and the actual figure.

The HSE has become a monolith whose only interest seems to be massaging statistics in order to justify it's own exorbitant management costs and offer a comfort zone to the Minister who willingly passes all blame for her own policy failures on to the HSE.

[rkeane]

This is nothing to do with the nurses concern for patient welfare, its all to do with the INO looking for yet another increase.

[FakeViking]

This is nothing to do with the nurses concern for patient welfare, its all to do with the INO looking for yet another increase

Only removing staff from hospitals and diverting money away from patient care into wages for staff who are sitting at home can resolve this situation.

Gee, the really bright sparks are out on this issue!

[Edo]

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0117/breaking66.htm

Overcrowding in a Dublin emergency department was critical today with 46 patients waiting on trolleys and chairs for admission, it was claimed.

The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) said the situation was so bad at Beaumont Hospital that emergency ambulances were detained at the department for more than two hours.

The hospital said it was aware of extra pressure on the service and trying to address it.

"Once again patients and staff in the A&E department of Beaumont Hospital find themselves enduring disgraceful conditions as a result of overcrowding," said Edward Mathews, INO Industrial Relations Officer.

"Horror stories are being told to us about a 90-year-old on a chair for 24 hours.

"It is at full capacity and has been at full capacity for a number of days now. Staff are totally exasperated and patients are in deplorable conditions.

"It is a very serious situation."

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considering, the amount of money spent on the Health service by this government over the last 11 years, is it not a disgrace that we still are having these problems in our hospitals.

who is accountable for this situation?

I'll answer, that nobody because FF/PD/Greens are in government, and God forbid anyone should take any responsibility for anything.

God Yeah isnt it terrible ,terrible , terrible - yaddy yaddy yah

Whats the point? - outside my immediate sympathies for the patients directly affected - I really couldn't care less anymore about the shenanigans in our health services

Nobody from the HSE directors down to the Car park attendants give a damn about solving the issues that paralysise the Health Service here - its Me Feiner United in there - "its always somebody else fault and I want more money" is all you'll ever here out of the joint.

And it doesn't matter who sits behind the desk of Minister of Health - Fine Gael and Labour would be struggling to do any better. The Electorate want their cake and they want to eat it with High cholestrol cream on top too - They want things to get better ,yet the moment any proposal is made to change things - they collectively ************************e themselves and start giving out about loss of services and unemployment in their immediate locale - and with our finely tuned electoral system - its suicide for anybody to consider doing something constructive.

We have the health service we deserve - Given the amount of giving out on the doorstep about the state of the Health Service and the last government at the last election - FG should have won all 166 seats in the Dail - but the electorate in general are a bunch of cowardly moaning self centred whinging bastards and dont deserve the vast majority of politicians of all hues who try and represent them and do some good.

Rant over - back to work