Nurses warn against proposed A&E transfer

IRISH Nurses Organisation (INO) general secretary Liam Doran warned yesterday that transferring A&E services from Ennis and Nenagh general hospitals into the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick will make a bad situation worse.

Liam Doran said: “It will be taking people from A&E departments in Ennis and Nenagh, and putting them into an already overcrowded overstretched A&E in Dooradoyle, without the enhanced infrastructure required in additional medical emergency consultants and new clinical nurse practitioners.

“None of those key components of a new service are in place. What is being proposed is to take somebody from a bed in Ennis and Nenagh and put them on a trolley in Dooradoyle and that is not progress.”