Hospitals blasé about A&E crisis, says INO

NURSES’ leader Liam Doran has accused hospital management of responding to A&E crises only when the media highlights chaotic overcrowding.

Mr Doran, general secretary of the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO), said the firefighting approach adopted by most hospital managers, reacting only in extreme overcrowding situations, was doing nothing to alleviate daily difficulties besetting A&E departments.

“The reality is overcrowding has now become the norm and it only becomes noteworthy when it goes to a certain level of overcrowding and the media shines the spotlight.”