Nurses to publish daily overcrowding figures

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is to start publishing daily figures which will highlight any overcrowding.

Nurses to publish daily overcrowding figures

According to general secretary Liam Doran, “Ward Watch” will document any additional patients on wards above their standard compliment.

He says the organisation will ring every hospital every day to obtain the figures. They will then be published alongside the existing “trolley watch” figures which tell the public how many people are on trolleys.

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