Greater than 16,000 sufferers spent over 24 hours in ED within the first three months of 2025
4-in-ten sufferers over 75 who attended an ED within the first three months of this yr waited greater than 9 hours earlier than being admitted or discharged.
New provisional HSE information confirmed that 58.96 per cent of sufferers on this age group have been admitted or discharged from an ED inside 9 hours between January and March, with this charge various considerably throughout hospitals.
In St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny, 85 per cent of older sufferers have been processed by ED inside 9 hours, the very best charge within the nation. This was adopted by Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise (75.3 per cent) and College Hospital Waterford (71.1 per cent).
In distinction, simply 32.9 per cent of sufferers over 75 in Our Girl of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda have been admitted or discharged inside 9 hours. In Beaumont Hospital this charge was 34.1 per cent, whereas in Tallaght College Hospital it was 34.3 per cent. Naas Normal Hospital and Cork College Hospital each had charges under 40 per cent.
In St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny, 85 per cent of older sufferers have been processed by ED inside 9 hours, the very best charge within the nation
Taking a look at admitted sufferers alone, lower than half (49.71 per cent) progressed by ED in underneath 9 hours. In Beaumont, this charge was as little as 13.3 per cent. In an additional 5 hospitals – Naas, Drogheda, Tallaght, St Vincent’s in Dublin and Sligo College Hospital – fewer than one-in-five admitted sufferers over 75 spent lower than 9 hours in ED earlier than being taken in for additional care.
The figures have been highlighted in a current weekly Pressing and Emergency Care Efficiency Replace, which coated the interval as much as March 30.
Amongst sufferers of all ages within the first three months of the yr, the replace discovered that 16,043 spent greater than 24 hours in an ED. Of those, 12,305 have been admitted for additional care.
Drogheda had the very best variety of folks spending greater than 24 hours in its ED, at 1,764. This was adopted by Tallaght at 1,624 and Cork at 1,419.
In distinction, Waterford had no sufferers spending greater than 24 hours its ED. Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore had only one affected person breach this time, whereas there have been seven sufferers every spending greater than 24 hours the youngsters’s ED in Tallaght and St Luke’s in Kilkenny.
The median time a affected person spent in an ED in Eire within the first three months of the yr was 6.23 hours. Period instances in ED have been longest in Tallaght, the place sufferers spent a mean of 9.4 hours in its emergency setting.
In Beaumont, common ED length was 8.9 hours, whereas Naas sufferers spent a mean of 8.3 hours in its ED.
Nonetheless, St Luke’s sufferers spent simply three hours on common in its ED. Waterford had a mean ED length per affected person of three.7 hours, whereas sufferers on the three kids’s EDs at Temple Avenue, Tallaght and Crumlin all spent lower than 4 hours on common in emergency care.
