{"id":5420,"date":"2025-05-30T08:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2025-05-30T08:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:04:44","slug":"tallaght-hospital-has-longest-waits-in-ae-in-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/tallaght-hospital-has-longest-waits-in-ae-in-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallaght Hospital has longest waits in A&#038;E in the state"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that it is unacceptable that the people who rely on Tallaght University Hospital are forced to wait on average five hours longer to access care in the Accident and Emergency department than the statewide average. <br \/><br \/>Figures released by the HSE show that the average wait time for 2025 in Tallaght is 12.6 hours against the state average of 7.3 hours. <br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cWaiting times in the Tallaght University Hospital Accident and Emergency are way above the state average. People are waiting on average 12.6 hours when the state average is 7.3 hours. <br \/><br \/>\u201cDublin South West has always been chronically deprived when it comes to funding and resources for our public services and this is only further proof. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThe healthcare professionals in TUH do sterling work but they are being put in impossible circumstances by this government\u2019s mismanagement of the health service. <br \/><br \/>\u201cPeople in Tallaght are waiting two hours longer than the next highest hospital on the list. It is simply unacceptable. They\u2019re even waiting longer than in Limerick Hospital which is the most overcrowded in the state. <br \/><br \/>\u201cTallaght University Hospital needs to see a massive increase in support for the government. We need to see the new stepdown unit prioritised so that we can get vitally needed beds into the system and the Pay and Numbers strategy done away with so that we can staff the hospital to the level that workers and their patients need.\u201d<br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that it is unacceptable that the people who rely on Tallaght University Hospital are forced to wait on average five hours longer to access care in the Accident and Emergency department than the statewide average. Figures released by the HSE show that the average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","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=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}