Chronic overcrowding continued across the country’s hospitals as 504 admitted patients languished on trolleys in emergency departments and wards today.

Access to emergency medicine should be free for everyone, according to the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM).

Chronic overcrowding continued across the country’s hospitals as 531 admitted patients languished on trolleys in emergency departments and wards today.

Less than one in 10 critically injured patients are met by a trauma team when they arrive at a hospital.

Neither the HSE nor the Department of Health have done anything of “substance” to deal with hospital overcrowding, which has reached a record high, with 677 people on trolleys, according to the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine.

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine has warned that patients are dying needlessly - because of the state of the health sector.

Nine hospitals around the country, including the Mercy University Hospital in Cork, face losing their emergency trauma services.

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Doctors in emergency medicine have welcomed a new children’s triage system that will be in use in all emergency departments by the end of the year.

Trampoline and bouncing castles are causing preventable accidents that are clogging up our emergency departments.

Almost 50,000 patients each year are walking out of our emergency departments due to frustrations over long waiting times.

The country’s beleaguered health system has come under fresh criticism after the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine slammed the “anaemic” response to emergency department overcrowding which it claimed will mean more patients dying.

Patients will continue to die needlessly on trolleys in overcrowded emergency departments until politicians do what needs to be done, a consultant in emergency medicine warned yesterday.

There were almost twice the number of patients on trolleys last month than in March 2008, according to figures provided by the country’s largest nursing union.

Nurses may take industrial action later this month to highlight continuing overcrowding in emergency departments.

Emergency doctors say patients left languishing on hospital trolleys have suffered an infringement of their human rights and have been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment.

The HSE is only acting now to ensure that complex surgery no longer takes place at the Midland Regional Hospital, despite saying years ago that surgical services at the hospital should cease, it has emerged.

A major acute hospital that had the highest number of patients on trolleys yesterday in its emergency department has been described by nurses as being “dangerously overcrowded”.

DESPITE promises by the Government, Health Minister Leo Varadkar, and HSE management, the issue of overcrowding in the nation’s hospitals continues to worsen.

Hospitals risk seeing the “most vulnerable” people in society being “picked off” through needless flu-linked deaths unless they take urgent action to address the emergency department overcrowding crisis.

A widespread nurses’ strike across the country’s major accident and emergency departments is increasingly likely following a decision to extend a ballot for industrial action to hospitals plagued by emergency department overcrowding.

Doctors working in emergency medicine have rejected claims that they are sending patients home who should be in hospital.

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine and the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar, have expressed concerns about the Government’s preparedness for any ebola cases. 

Overcrowding in hospital emergency departments (ED) is a major concern for doctors making plans to deal with suspected ebola cases.

Overcrowded emergency departments will come closer to being shut down next month than at any point in the last 10 years, according to a Cork-based consultant.

Doctors have warned of a "staffing meltdown" in the country’s 30 emergency departments.

More than 3,000 junior doctors have gone on strike — with the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) warning of more industrial action.

Consultants working in Emergency Departments in Irish hospitals have said that recent media reports highlighting inadequate facilities for child patients are accurate.

A panel of senior medics is likely to recommend a crackdown on drunk and disorderly behaviour in public as part of plans to tackle the issue of problem drinking.

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) praised the Health Information and Quality Authority on the thoroughness of its investigation.

A group advocating the provision of a Children's Hospital at the Mater site in Dublin has said it is shocked the development will not go ahead.

A major surge in the number of children forced to wait on emergency department trolleys for up to a day could be halted without increasing budget costs, it has been claimed.

A 700% rise in the number of sick children left lingering in paediatric emergency departments has been recorded by senior medics.

Accident and Emergency doctors at childrens' hospitals are calling for beds to be re-opened over the winter season to facilitate the increased seasonal demand for short-term care.

THERE were almost 400 patients on trolleys in hospitals across the country yesterday, a situation that was described as unsafe by a prominent patient advocate.

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine has said the number of children being injured on trampolines internationally has doubled in the last decade.

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has expressed grave concerns over the HSE decision to freeze recruitment at all levels.

HOSPITALS will be barred from appointing any junior doctor agency workers from nextMonday, after senior HSE officials privately conceded plans to cut the short-term staff cost are failing.

EMERGENCY legislation is to be rushed through the Oireachtas to try and ease a looming crisis over the lack of junior doctors.

THE Government’s plans for health service reforms and universal health insurance need far greater cost analysis and much clearer detail, the head of the largest doctor’s union said.

EVEN longer waiting times in hospital emergency departments are inevitable from next month, the Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has warned.