617 patients on trolleys following bank holiday weekend - INMO The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has urged the Health Service Executive to get a handle on a ‘summer trolley crisis’. This comes as over 617 patients are without a bed in Irish hospitals this morning.
July like no other in health service - exceptional measures needed in UHL 10,394 patients were treated on a trolley or in an inappropriate space in July, according to the INMO. The union states that this is the first July on record that trolley figures have exceeded 10,000.
Agreement reached between Unions and HSE regarding Killarney Community Nursing Unit Following negotiations under the auspices of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), an agreement has been reached regarding the safe staffing of Killarney Community Nursing Unit, enabling the unit to open safely on a phased basis from August 10th.