{"id":3605,"date":"2018-09-12T10:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T10:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:58:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T10:58:47","slug":"trolley-crisis-no-relief-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/trolley-crisis-no-relief-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Trolley crisis No Relief Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trolley Crisis No Relief Soon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has described the news that a 92 year old was left on a chair in the Emergency Department of the Mater Hospital for over 24 hours as another scandal that demeans us all. Crowe said that without any new plans or new approaches that it unfortunately looks likely that the trolley crisis will continue unabated as the summer comes to an end.<\/p>\n

Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n

\u201cNews that a 92 year old women was left on a chair in an Emergency Department for over 24 hours over the last couple of days is a scandal that demeans us all and should be totally unacceptable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is particularly worrying is that cases like this senior citizen are becoming more common and having less and less impact. Stories of vulnerable citizens are becoming commonplace and look likely to continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout any new plans or new approaches\u00a0unfortunately the trolley crisis looks likely to continue unabated as the summer comes to an end.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the previous efforts of the Health Minister Simon Harris and the HSE to end the trolley crisis have failed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most recent Trolley Watch figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Association confirm that August was the worst on record for hospital overcrowding.<\/p>\n

“Throughout August 7,911 patients spent time one night or more on a trolley, and we know from trolley watch that the trolley count jumped up by 20%<\/p>\n

“The fears of hospital staff working on the frontline have been confirmed in fact there are 169 emergency department nursing posts lying vacant and pleas for extra resources more staff, more hospital beds with extra step down facilities have fallen on deaf ears.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is undeniable that the trolley count has escalated under the current Minister for health.<\/p>\n

\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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have 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

\u201cMinister Harris has also ignored the implementation of the Sl\u00e1intecare Report, ignored the bed capacity review, ignored numerous D\u00e1il motions proposing solutions to the mounting trolley debacle, failed to deal with the growing waiting lists, and has overseen the health staff recruitment and retention failure<\/p>\n

“The unprecedented trolley figures show the current health system is broken and the current Minister incapable or unable to resolve the crisis. He needs to go.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe latest case of the 92 year old left on a chair in the Emergency Department of the Mater Hospital also highlights that as society we also are losing our\u00a0ability to be shocked and worryingly\u00a0our humanity.<\/p>\n

\u201d <\/em>ENDS<\/p>\n

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Trolley Crisis No Relief Soon Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has described the news that a 92 year old was left on a chair in the Emergency Department of the Mater Hospital for over 24 hours as another scandal that demeans us all. Crowe said that without any new plans or new approaches that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605","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=3605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3606,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}