Trolley Watch: 507 patients waiting for hospital beds

James Cox

A total of 506 admitted patients are waiting for beds this morning, according to today’s Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) Trolley Watch.

Three hundred and seventy patients are waiting in the emergency department, while 136 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital.

The most overcrowded hospital is University Hospital Limerick, where there are 89 patients waiting for beds.

After this the most overcrowded hospitals are University Hospital Galway (60 patients), Cork University Hospital (51 patients), Letterkenny University Hospital (36 patients) and St James's Hospital (31 patients).

The hospital with the most patients waiting for a bed in the emergency department was Cork University Hospital (45 patients), followed by University Hospital Galway (42 patients) and University Hospital Limerick (39 patients).