Nursing homes can relieve A&E crisis

THE Irish Nursing Homes Organisation is relieved at the recent admission by the Tánaiste that the overcrowding crisis in acute hospitals is a national emergency and that all available resources will have to be mobilised.

Nursing homes can relieve A&E crisis
Mon, 10 Apr, 2006 - 01:00

We have for some time made it known that there is capacity available within the private nursing home sector, which the HSE could utilise to reduce the pressure on overcrowded acute hospitals.

The decision by the HSE's A&E task force to source additional nursing home beds to patients who no longer need acute hospital care is a positive step towards resolving the A&E crisis. At any one time, there are up to 2,000 beds in private nursing homes nationally.

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