{"id":3601,"date":"2018-09-06T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2018-09-06T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T13:27:54","slug":"hospital-trolley-crisis-set-to-increase-says-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/hospital-trolley-crisis-set-to-increase-says-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Trolley Crisis Set to Increase says Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hospital Trolley Crisis Set to Increase says Crowe <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that all indicators suggest that the trolley crisis in our hospital is set to increase. Crowe was speaking after it emerged that the trolley count was this week up by 20% on last year and said that the Minister for Health doesn\u2019t fully grasp the crisis if he doesn\u2019t see that the trolley crisis, the nursing recruitment and retention crisis are interlinked.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trolley crisis has been continuously escalating under Simon Harris\u2019s tenure as Minister for Health. Last year saw the largest number of patients on trolleys in recorded history at a whopping\u00a098,981.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year the crisis has continued on the same path upwards<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most recent Trolley Watch figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Association show that this month has been the worst August on record for hospital overcrowding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout August 7,911 patients spent time one night or more on a trolley. This week the trolley count was up by 20%<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinister Harris has so far failed to deal with the issues that are causing this emergency. These are the issues of\u00a0recruitment and retention of staff, capacity &#8211; failure to reopen closed beds, adequate step down facilities, and proper primary and community care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs with the ongoing housing crisis, the government think that their policies are working for the health service but, they are completely failing and that failure is impacting on citizens\u00a0lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast January the D\u00e1il passed a Private Members Business motion advocating solutions to resolve the trolley crisis, however, Fine Gael have failed to make any attempt to implement any aspect of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have also failed to address the nursing recruitment and retention crisis which is a key component of\u00a0the trolley crisis. An analysis of the trolley crisis shows that hospitals with unfilled nursing vacancies have also the highest numbers of patients on trolleys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the\u00a0Minister for Health cannot see that the trolley crisis and the nursing recruitment and retention crisis are interlinked then he doesn\u2019t really have a clear understanding of the trolley crisis that is impacting so negatively on patients and staff in our hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEND<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospital Trolley Crisis Set to Increase says Crowe \u00a0 Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that all indicators suggest that the trolley crisis in our hospital is set to increase. Crowe was speaking after it emerged that the trolley count was this week up by 20% on last year and said that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trolley-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}