Oltre 100.000 pazienti hanno lasciato EDS senza essere visti nel 2024
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0305/1500302-ireland-health/
di siciowa
Oltre 100.000 pazienti hanno lasciato EDS senza essere visti nel 2024
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0305/1500302-ireland-health/
di siciowa
9 commenti
Mustn’t have been an emergency
It’s a complete shitshow. A national embarrassment.
So, yes, there is a commentary here that, “They can’t have been emergencies if they were able to leave”.
At the same time, there are always a small percentage of these people who do have acute conditions but leave anyway. You’d be blown away with what people can endure.
Maybe they cope another 3 days before going back. Maybe they collapse and end up in an ambulance. Maybe they die at home.
It’s not ideal.
But we do need to deal with the former issue of people attending hospitals for what are functionally non-emergency situations. Which will then free up capacity for people with real emergencies.
With the increase in primary care centres across the country, we need to look at having 24-hour minor care centres which are not co-located with hospitals. If you feel shit or have cuts, sprains, etc etc., you go to one of these. If your condition is too serious, they send you to hospital. The aim of the primary care centre is to treat or bounce, not leave anyone sitting and waiting in a corridor.
This is functionally another way of increasing ED capacity in general, but also may start tackling the culture of using hospitals as the family GP.
I always assumed that was part of their capacity strategy. Make the place as threatening and uncomfortable as possible so that anyone who isn’t in danger of immediate death just leaves.
Yep. And they keep the money. 100,000 x 100.
This is ehat primary care centres need to be taking over.
Happened myself last year, cut my knuckle on a garden tool blade, thankfully a very clean cut, but I could see my vein and inner working of my hand. Gf panicked and we drove to tallaght hospital. Was told it would be a 10hr wait. We have cover so thankfully we were able to go home. Have a sleep and go the hermitage in the morning all before I would have even been seen in tallaght 🙃
My stepdad was someone who left after not being seen for 14 hours. He had a bad reaction to chemo. His own Oncology team said he had to go through A&E as he was that bad. Left waiting for 14 hours without seeing a consultant. He was so uncomfortable, was given a bed at one point, and then they took it off him again and back on a trolley. After 14 hours, he was told it would be another 4 or 5 hours before Oncology would see him. He called my mom in bits to just bring him home. It was horrible for him. I get he needed someone specialised, and no one was available, but no one with cancer should be left waiting.
Even the wait to see the local GP now is ridiculous, I rang for my father and was told he couldn’t be seen for a week and a half . I managed to get him seen the next day as he was only out of hospital, so they squeezed him in . We were waiting 2 and a half hours to see the local GP. I myself am still waiting a year and a half to see a specialist about my feet due to a side effect from a drug I was put on .