{"id":265,"date":"2011-07-02T12:40:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T12:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/patients-in-danger-at-tallaght-hospital\/"},"modified":"2011-07-02T12:40:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T12:40:19","slug":"patients-in-danger-at-tallaght-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/patients-in-danger-at-tallaght-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients in Danger at Tallaght Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patients\u00a0in Danger\u00a0at\u00a0Tallaght Hospital<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n


Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe<\/span> has said he shares many of\u00a0the concerns expressed by The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) who today highlighted the fact that Tallaght Hospital is not effectively managing the risks to patients requiring acute admission.<\/strong><\/span> <\/p>\n

Deputy Se\u00e1n \u00a0Crowe<\/span> who lives in Tallaght and is long time supporter of the hospital and member of the\u00a0Tallaght\u00a0Hospital Action Group said: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cComing within a week of\u00a0a damning assessment by Dublin City Coroner Dr Kieran Geraghty, who in the inquest into the death of Kilnamanagh man\u00a0 Thomas Walsh described Tallaght Hospital as being a \u201cvery dangerous place\u201d the similar concerns expressed by the HIQA must serve as a wakeup call for the Hospital Administration and the new\u00a0Health Minister James\u00a0O’ Reilly <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear that the continual gutting of funding has severely impacted on services at Tallaght Hospital. The A&E Department is\u00a0 the busiest in the country yet it is understaffed and under resourced. It is unacceptable, that a hospital designed to originally cater for 350.000 annually is now expected to cope with a catchment area of over 530,000 people <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI welcome the fact that the HIQA has published the terms of reference for its statutory inquiry into the safety and governance of care at the hospital’s Emergency Department. I understand that the terms of reference, the inquiry will assess the quality, safety and governance, and accountability for services provided to patients who attend the\u00a0Accident\u00a0&\u00a0Emergency Department.<\/span> <\/p>\n

“This inquiry will also look at where appropriate, specific patient cases\u00a0 and an examine\u00a0if the hospital has been effective in managing risks to patients.<\/span> <\/p>\n

\u201cThe death of Thomas Walsh\u00a0 who attended the hospital with severe ankle pains, tragically exposed the extent of the problems at the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The coroner\u2019s report highlighted how he had been moved away from the emergency department to a so-called ‘virtual ward’, a corridor area with no real facilities like\u00a0oxygen, monitors or life saving specialised equipment. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis latest finding\u00a0is a massive indictment on how this State Health apparatus\u00a0treats its citizens whenever they\u00a0become ill and need treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It also emerged that\u00a0last year in the Emergency Department a patient suffered a cardiac arrest on a chair while awaiting admission.<\/span> <\/p>\n

\u201cDespite the dedication of its overstretched staff, Tallaght Hospital is failing the people who depend on its services when\u00a0presenting \u2013 the lack of resources means it is\u00a0 not currently\u00a0able for the demands being place on the system.<\/span><\/p>\n

This Government\u00a0needs to urgently\u00a0 address the problems of resources and key personnel\u00a0in Tallaght\u00a0as a matter of the utmost priority.<\/span><\/p>\n

If they don’t, then more and more\u00a0families will\u00a0 face \u00a0further\u00a0heartbreak in what is supposed to be a modern flagship healthcare facility.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patients\u00a0in Danger\u00a0at\u00a0Tallaght Hospital Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said he shares many of\u00a0the concerns expressed by The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) who today highlighted the fact that Tallaght Hospital is not effectively managing the risks to patients requiring acute admission. Deputy Se\u00e1n \u00a0Crowe who lives in Tallaght and is long time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}