CONSULTANTS ARE WARNING of stark impacts on patients due to “avoidable delays” experienced in the healthcare system in weeks.
According the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, 489 admitted patients were waiting for beds yesterday morning. 390 patients were waiting in emergency departments and 99 were in wards elsewhere in the hospitals.HSE Chief Clinical Officer Dr Colm Henry told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland yesterday that the health service is seeking additional capacity in the private hospital sector to cope with current pressures attributed to respiratory illnesses.
In a statement this afternoon, Dr Sadlier said the recent events have highlighted the “structural fragility of the Irish health services” and that “years of underinvestment in both hospital and community healthcare infrastructure has left us a service which is dangerous for patients and for those who work within it”.
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HSE needs to 'scale up' its use of private bedsMinister of State at the Department of Transport and Environment Jack Chambers has said there has been an under-utilisation by the Health Service Executive of bed capacity in private hospitals. What next, under-utilisation of beds in peoples homes ? This government is a busted flush. They flood the country with a de-facto open borders policy on immigration, while allowing our infrastructure to rot away. Nationalise them. That’ll solve ‘under-utilisation’. Balance in supply between public and private has been found to be wrong...rather than address under supply in Health, the Government follows same pattern in Health as in HousingCrisis becoming a customer of private market. PatLeahyIT PatKennyNT still not seeing the pattern?
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