A Clare member of the HSE’s Regional Health Forum West claims there’s a ‘culture of acceptance’ surrounding the high trolley numbers at UHL.
It’s after a new national patient safety survey found that 27 percent of patients in the UL Hospital Group reported waiting at least 24 hours in the emergency department.
Just one in six patients across the group were seen within the national target time of six hours, the survey of 1,000 people in the MidWest found – though it was carried out before the opening of the new ED at University Hospital Limerick.
Head of the group Colette Cowan says they now have to respond to what patients have said.
Ennis Independent Councillor Ann Norton, whose daughter regularly attends the A&E at Dooradoyle, says she’s not surprised by the news:
