CUH chief says union trolley count is flawed and unfair

The head of one of the country’s largest hospitals has described the main nursing union’s 8am trolley count as flawed and unfair to Irish hospitals.

Tony McNamara, the chief executive of Cork University Hospital (CUH) Group, said the use of this singular count is overly simplistic, and that the abuse of this single measurement can damage the reputation of hospitals and the health service.

“It is clearly in the interest of some stakeholders to use this data opportunistically to criticise the minister, the HSE and individual hospitals in support of increased resource allocation,” he wrote on his hospital blog.