{"id":3858,"date":"2019-07-05T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2019-07-05T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T09:40:11","slug":"assaults-on-hospital-staff-in-the-dublin-midlands-hospital-group-staggeringly-high-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/assaults-on-hospital-staff-in-the-dublin-midlands-hospital-group-staggeringly-high-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Assaults on hospital staff in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group \u2018staggeringly high\u2019 &#8211; Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Assaults on hospital staff in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group\n\u2018staggeringly high\u2019 &#8211; Crowe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking this afternoon, Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD,\nSe\u00e1n Crowe, has said that the number of assaults on staff in Tallaght hospital\nis staggeringly high and the safety of staff needs to be better prioritised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe safety of the excellent staff in our health service as they discharge their duties is paramount. Any assault or attempted assault on a member of the health service as they try to do their job is unacceptable. <\/p><p>\u201cFigures released to Sinn F\u00e9in show that in the first five months of the year 279 health service workers were assaulted \u2013 with 249 of those assaults being committed against nurses and midwives.<\/p><p>\u201cIn Dublin Midlands Hospital Group, which Tallaght hospital is part of, the number of assaults was a staggering 40.<\/p><p>\u201cNurses play a key role in the delivery of our public health services, and for them to face such high levels of assault is completely unacceptable.<\/p><p>\u201cThe HSE, and the Minister for Health, need to increase measures to reduce the number of assaults our nurses face.<\/p><p>\u201cI urge the HSE to directly employ more security staff in the emergency department in Tallaght and throughout the hospital to ensure employees are protected.<\/p><p>\u201cWorkers in Tallaght hospital and across the heath service do an amazing job in caring for the health needs of the people and they deserve the right to be able to do their jobs without fear of facing assault.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assaults on hospital staff in the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group \u2018staggeringly high\u2019 &#8211; Crowe Speaking this afternoon, Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, has said that the number of assaults on staff in Tallaght hospital is staggeringly high and the safety of staff needs to be better prioritised. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said: \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-tallaght-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858","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=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}