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Patient numbers on trolleys have doubled in a decade

Thu, Apr 07, 2016

The numbers of patients waiting on trolleys at the emergency department of University Hospital Galway during March this year more than doubled when compared with the same month 10 years ago.

Figures released by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation indicate that there were 258 patients on trolleys or inappropriately located in wards in March 2006. However, this figure jumped to 539 last month.

The numbers for the month of March for the intervening years are as follows:-189 in 2007, 209 in 2008, 305 in 2009, 443 in 2010, and 626 in 2011. There were 409 patients on trolleys in 2012, 401 in 2013, 387 in 2014, and 634 for 2015.


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