{"id":80472,"date":"2025-09-23T07:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/80472\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:28:10","slug":"suzanne-crowe-we-only-had-to-wait-five-hours-in-ae-after-my-sons-fracture-we-were-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/80472\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzanne Crowe: We only had to wait five hours in A&#038;E after my son\u2019s fracture \u2013 we were lucky"},"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\">Emergency department bottlenecks can only be fixed by taking a societal approach\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patients in an emergency department waiting room. Picture posed. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hospital waiting.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)\">Patients in an emergency department waiting room. Picture posed. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">Last week I spent five hours as a family member in an emergency department. It was evening and the waiting room was full as I arrived with my son, who had a nasty fracture following a spill on the rugby pitch. After repositioning of the broken bone, pain relief and a plaster cast, he was more comfortable and ready for home. We agreed that it had been a gruelling but necessary experience.<\/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)\">A few days later, a HSE report stated that the average waiting time in EDs around the country was seven hours, with waiting times ranging from 3.7 hours to more than 9.9 hours for some departments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency department bottlenecks can only be fixed by taking a societal approach Patients in an emergency department waiting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[3496,18,135,475,474,60,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-80472","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-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-hse","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80472","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=80472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}