Nursing plan for A&E trolley patients stalls due to lack of funds

A plan to have 107 nurses look after admitted patients on trolleys in emergency departments has stalled because there is no money to employ them.

General secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Organisation, Liam Doran, said both the Department of Health and the HSE agree that the nurses should be appointed.

But, he said, the department and the HSE started “ping-ponging” the matter before admitting last week that there is no funding available.