{"id":106781,"date":"2025-10-07T13:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106781\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:26:32","slug":"three-options-to-solve-limerick-hospitals-trolley-crisis-which-will-jennifer-carroll-macneill-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/106781\/","title":{"rendered":"Three options to solve Limerick hospital\u2019s trolley crisis \u2013 which will Jennifer Carroll MacNeill choose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Health Minister must assess options after Hiqa report makes clear lack of beds poses risks to patients\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"University Hospital Limerick. Photo: Don Moloney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/103992046.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">University Hospital Limerick. Photo: Don Moloney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Even before the winter flu surge, there were 23 patients on trolleys waiting for a bed for more than 24 hours in University Hospital Limerick (UHL) yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The pressure is unrelenting and at the heart of the ongoing risk to patient safety is a lack of beds, a recent in-depth analysis by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) makes clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Minister must assess options after Hiqa report makes clear lack of beds poses risks to patients University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[3496,2271,18,135,475,474,60,19,17,5002],"class_list":{"0":"post-106781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-eilish-oregan","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-hse","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}