Senior clinicians in the UL Hospitals Group have written an open letter calling for politicians and the wider general public to come together in a bid to improve services.
The letter, signed by the Hospital Group’s Clinical Managers, argues that the MidWest receives less funding on a proportional basis than other hospital groups.
They insist there’s not enough doctors, nurses, inpatient beds or access to critical care, theatre or diagnostics, while step down facility beds or community services are also lacking.
Meanwhile, this Ennis mother has been telling Clare FM’s Morning Focus that she’s horrified by the scenes she witnessed there when her daughter was brought into A&E at Dooradoyle this past weekend:
Today menawhile, the level of overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick remains the highest in the country.
The latest INMO figures show 58 patients were left waiting for beds there this morning, 42 of those in the emergency department.
