Nurses union expresses concerns about patient safety to Health Minister

The number of nurses who state that inadequate staffing numbers in their workplaces is putting patient safety at risk “needs to be a wake-up call”, nurses have told Health Minister Stephen Donnelly.

In response, Ms McGowan said that issues around staff shortages have been raised by the INMO for several years and are impacting patients’ safety.“Since the last time you addressed this conference over 128,084 patients have been treated on trolleys or chairs while waiting for a hospital bed,” Ms McGowan said.“Our hospital system sleepwalked into a summer trolley crisis. During that time all signs were pointing toward a winter of chaos.

She said that overcrowding is no longer confined to emergency departments and trolleys are also being placed on wards. It is also having impacts, she said, on ICU and other departments.

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