# Overcrowding
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Overcrowding
Worst year on record: Almost 110,000 patients went without hospital beds last year
Updated
2 Jan 2019
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Overcrowding
'Worst October ever': Over 9,000 patients forced to wait on trolleys this month
31 Oct 2018
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would it work here?
Can the UK's 'elective only hospital' model help reduce overcrowding in Irish hospitals?
13 Oct 2018
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nursing vacancies
'Worst August on record' for hospital overcrowding with almost 8,000 on trolleys
Updated
31 Aug 2018
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Overcrowding
Tour groups 'pulling a fast one' are overrunning Cork's English Market
18 Aug 2018
45.0k
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Waiting Times
Patients at A&E should be either admitted or discharged within six hours, not 14 - IMO chief
7 Apr 2018
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Overcrowding
Temple Street asks parents to keep children away from emergency department as 14 left on trolleys
15 Feb 2018
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Overcrowding
Longer Luas trams introduced this morning in bid to tackle overcrowding issues
7 Feb 2018
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Overcrowding
Varadkar doesn't want anyone to face 'indignity' caused by waiting on a trolley
10 Jan 2018
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Overcrowding
'Bear with us' says TII as it apologises for 'teething problems' with new Luas Green Line
10 Jan 2018
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Clean Air
More air quality monitoring stations on the way that will give real-time information to the public
10 Jan 2018
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Trolley crisis
Private hospital beds to be used to ease Emergency Department overcrowding
8 Jan 2018
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Voices
Dr Anthony O'Connor: Things we could do to get more people off trolleys
Dr Anthony O'Connor
8 Jan 2018
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Overcrowding
'No effort being spared' says Health Minister after trolley numbers reach record high
2 Jan 2018
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busy period
Surgeries at Cork hospital cancelled for two weeks as flu and 'revelry' make their impact
22 Dec 2017
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INMO
'Detrimental and harmful': There were over 80,000 people on hospital trolleys so far this year
9 Nov 2017
5.1k
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Commuters
'Unless the government allocate funds... there is no easy solution': Irish Rail responds to overcrowding complaint
20 Oct 2017
12.0k
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Waterford
'Totally unacceptable': Two people spend night on chairs in mental health unit
13 Oct 2017
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marley park
Reports of festival goers 'getting crushed' in massive queues on the way in to Longitude
14 Jul 2017
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record high
There were over 50,000 people on hospital trolleys in the first six months of 2017
3 Jul 2017
6.7k
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Overcrowding
Patients placed on chairs and beds in corridors of Waterford psychiatric unit
8 May 2017
9.1k
13
Trolleywatch
'Groundhog Day' as month begins with 600 people on hospital trolleys
2 Feb 2017
7.8k
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Hospital overcrowding
'If this many people were dying in another way, there’d be war over it'
21 Jan 2017
17.8k
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left idle
'Not a single patient in the building': PAC to investigate €7 million overspend at Tipperary Hospital
19 Jan 2017
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Overcrowding
Alan Kelly says his prediction of 'hell in our hospitals' has come true
4 Jan 2017
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Trolley Watch
There has actually been a slight drop in people on hospital trolleys this year
2 Dec 2016
7.1k
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mercy
A Cork hospital is so busy with emergencies it's asking patients to stay away
11 Nov 2016
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Delays
Ambulances taking over an hour to hand over patients and get back on the road
17 Aug 2016
12.1k
23
South Korea
Mers virus transmitted from one 'super-spreader patient' in overcrowded emergency room
9 Jul 2016
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Ireland's Alcatraz
Locked up for years for stealing a handkerchief - Delving into Spike Island's dark past
22 May 2016
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Overcrowding
Patients left lying on trolleys while 40-bed unit remains vacant at nearby hospital
20 Apr 2016
16.1k
33
Crisis Talks
Nurses to be hired "as matter of urgency" to reduce emergency department overcrowding
16 Mar 2016
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Overcrowding
Varadkar 'embarrassed and ashamed' by elderly man's death after 12 hours on hospital trolley
23 Feb 2016
23.0k
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Overcrowding
Varadkar defends comments about extra resources making hospitals slow down
8 Feb 2016
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