Hospital staff leaving their jobs over ‘impossible and dangerous’ workplaces

Hiqa recently released a report on the overcrowding and patient safety issues at University Hospital Limerick. Picture: Don Moloney

Highly skilled emergency department staff are leaving their jobs because of the “impossible and dangerous” situations in the country’s hospitals, a doctors' group has warned.

The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine made the claim in its response to the Health Information and Quality Authority's (Hiqa) recent report on overcrowding and patient safety issues in University Hospital Limerick's emergency department (EDs).