Waterford hospital without patients on trolleys since March 2020

UHW general manager Grace Rothwell monitors delays using the HSE’s trolley-counting system, which focuses on EDs only but does not count trolleys on wards, and said 'we haven’t had a patient on a trolley waiting for admission since March 2020.' Picture: Denis Minihane.

There were 760 people on trolleys in Irish hospitals yesterday, the highest since January 2020, and the second highest since records began. 

University Hospital Waterford (UHW) has not had a patient on a trolley awaiting admission since March of that year, however, with patient advocates calling for its systems to be adopted elsewhere.