Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Update on Sláintecare Reforms
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
To be fair, I think it is important. I engage with the INMO directly and I have huge respect for it and what it does. However, I could not let people observing the committee today think there are more than 100 people admitted on trolleys in the emergency department in University Hospital Limerick. There is not. At 8 a.m., there were 39 people on trolleys. To be fair to the INMO, what it is tracking is that there will be people on trolleys across the house of wards for safety, and there will also be people in what we would call surge capacity. We would consider that relatively appropriate, like using medical assessment units.
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