Hospital overcrowding should be treated as a ‘national crisis’, says INMO

More consultants and senior decision makers were deployed in hospitals over the weekend to ensure a more consistent flow of discharges across Saturday and Sunday.

“It’s simply not good enough to expect staff to just put up with that and they’re saying very clearly to us it’s not their intention to put up with it.” “And, so, it’s not just about fixing it with short-term measures in January, it’s about a fundamental change.”On Monday, the HSE will visit all acute hospitals to provide practical support in the midst of mounting pressure.

“All the viruses are around this time of year and you are going to have an increase and you need more beds. The Minister said himself that we need 5,000 beds to cope with it, but we don’t have them. It is a total disaster from the Government’s point of view.” Back during Mary Harney’s time as minister for health, the need for additional beds was recognised. “That is going back an awful long time and we still haven’t improved. The blame keeps being put on Covid but at this time of the year people are ill and we need a surge of beds, even if they have to put up extra beds in another building. The staff in our hospitals are willing and dedicated to their job.

Visit. Action needed.

I am sure all the patients are delighted to hear this

How about building some new hospitals outside of Dublin, how many of those have been done in the last 30 years? HSE

HSE to visit ? If they had their finger on the pulse they would already be all over this. It’s a visual exercise and nothing more. They just don’t know how to manage.

The Dept of Health is grossly overmanned in managerial, clerical & non-medical staff. These people do not perform any real function, We need to double our nursing numbers quadruple our consultancy numbers and treble our hospital doctors numbers. More frontline, less admin staff

Clap for the HSE…

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