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The timing of ward rounds at Galway University Hospitals are to be changed to ensure the earlier discharge of patients who have been treated and are waiting to go home or move to another health service.

A new direct GP referral system means family doctors may now bypass A&E when referring patients to University Hospital Galway.

A statement issued by the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine on Tuesday highlighted the curtailing or closure of the emergency departments in a number of nationwide hospitals and listed Mayo General Hospital as one which has an “acute” problem. However the HSE has said it is trying to address the issue.

A leading nursing union official has warned that the recruitment ban on frontline hospital staff, such as nurses and midwives, must be lifted and closed beds must be opened at University Hospital Galway to resolve the ongoing problems at the facility’s emergency department.

There was serious overcrowding experienced at Mayo General Hospital this week with 23 patients being treated on trolleys on Wednesday, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation trolley watch survey.

A local nursing official has slammed the overcrowding “chaos” at University Hospital Galway’s emergency department earlier this week, likening it to “Third World conditions”.

More hospital beds are expected to be freed up nationally with the introduction of a new discharge system.

That is the explanation according to the Oxford English Dictionary. But what is it that determines whether or not something is urgent these days?

Health service arrangements for Kilkenny’s hospitals in the south-east over the festive period have been announced.

A new system of readmission to hospital for oncology patients is being developed, Beverley Flynn TD has been assured.