# Emergency Departments
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This year
2024
Healthcare
HSE asks public to consider all care options before presenting at emergency departments
5 Feb
18.9k
42
HSE
Significant increase in emergency department attendances for slips and falls amid cold snap
9 Jan
15.5k
28
Last year
2023
HSE
HSE has 'significant concerns' it will continue to miss emergency department targets
23 Jul 2023
10.0k
32
INMO
'I was punched in the face': ED nurse on why there's no appetite for strike but it may be 'only way'
Updated
4 May 2023
20.6k
20
overcrowding crisis
Protests take place against overcrowding at 17 hospitals
Updated
21 Jan 2023
20.5k
31
Overcrowding
Minister says patients that could be treated in minor injury units are turning up in A&E Depts
Updated
6 Jan 2023
23.5k
57
Emergency Departments
INMO calls for return of mandatory mask-wearing in crowded settings amid record trolley numbers
Updated
3 Jan 2023
71.6k
104
All time
Waiting Lists
Healthcare report shows increase in ED attendances and outpatient appointments
1 Dec 2022
6.2k
9
Respiratory Syncytial virus
Children's emergency departments experiencing 'significant rise' in respiratory virus illness
4 Nov 2022
20.3k
6
Emergency Departments
HSE details hospitals with the highest average wait times
15 Jun 2022
22.3k
26
Covid-19
CMO doesn't advise for mandatory mask-wearing, as Tánaiste says public health emergency is over
Updated
31 Mar 2022
63.3k
56
Hospitals
Pressure on Emergency Departments 'worst since Covid-19 pandemic began', consultant says
Updated
24 Mar 2022
24.7k
42
Emergency Departments
3 in 4 staff in country's two largest EDs showed signs of burnout during pandemic, study finds
10 Oct 2021
15.6k
8
Emergency Departments
Hospitals granted 190 extra beds in bid to tackle winter pressure
11 Dec 2019
9.3k
30
Emergency Departments
'Failing Ireland's children': Hospitals postpone surgeries due to virus, flu and vomiting bug outbreaks
26 Nov 2019
9.0k
12
foreign objects
Children who swallowed foreign objects accounted for over 2,000 hospital attendances since 2015
25 Aug 2019
12.6k
21
lengthy visits
Limerick Hospital worst offender for lengthy emergency department waiting times for over 75s
7 Aug 2019
8.1k
18
St Patrick's Day
People warned to not drink too much this weekend as surge of alcohol-related injuries expected
15 Mar 2019
11.5k
28
Temple Street
Significant increase in homeless children attending Temple Street hospital last year
Updated
22 Jan 2019
15.0k
41
Under Pressure
'Wasteful, inefficient, horrendous': 30,000 people waited longer than 24 hours on hospital trolleys this year
22 Dec 2018
8.9k
49
winter plan
HSE wants to see patients as quickly as possible this winter - but admits it has no targets to do so
6 Dec 2018
7.0k
20
reform needed
Doctors say emergency departments are 'death zones' due to overcrowding
18 Jul 2018
17.0k
60
Cancer
Around 3,000 cancers diagnosed in hospital emergency departments every year
29 Mar 2018
7.4k
2
INMO
'It's absolutely deplorable': Record-breaking 714 people on trolleys in Irish hospitals this morning
12 Mar 2018
11.6k
73
Voices
30 hours on a trolley in Kerry: 'I witnessed an elderly woman being shielded with towels by relatives'
John Paul O'Connor
28 Feb 2018
29.8k
50
Trolley crisis
The government vowed to stop it, but 10,000 elderly people had to wait in A&E for more than a day
19 Jan 2018
7.2k
23
Trolley crisis
Private hospital beds to be used to ease Emergency Department overcrowding
8 Jan 2018
14.5k
29
Voices
Hospital consultant: 'I'd like to dispel a few myths for people about overcrowding'
Dr Anthony O'Connor
5 Jan 2018
274k
198
Voices
Open letter to Simon Harris: 'Our dad provided good service to Irish State but ended up on a trolley'
Caitriona O'Neill and William Gallagher
4 Jan 2018
48.3k
92
broken promises
Hospital breakdown: 9,206 elderly people forced to wait over 24 hours in Emergency Departments
15 Nov 2017
11.3k
36
Emergency Departments
The HSE is working on an app that will tell you how busy your local emergency department is
15 Oct 2017
17.7k
41
Hospital overcrowding
'If this many people were dying in another way, there’d be war over it'
21 Jan 2017
17.8k
32
inside Irish hospitals
Patients describe nurses 'red in the face' from work and guilt of seeing elderly on trolleys
4 Jan 2017
17.2k
42
rsv
Long delays at children's emergency departments due to 'dramatic' spike in viral infections
7 Dec 2016
22.0k
20
Emergency Departments
Children's hospitals tell people to stay away due to "unprecedented demand"
12 Nov 2016
12.7k
11
Waiting Times
The doctor revamping emergency departments in the US has some advice for Irish hospitals
6 Nov 2016
29.7k
26
flu epidemic
Alan Kelly wants state access to private hospitals to avoid 'hell in our emergency departments'
19 Oct 2016
15.8k
67