Tag: waiting lists

  • Shocking 2016 trolley figures from South Tipperary General Hospital

    Shocking 2016 trolley figures from South Tipperary General Hospital

    South Tipperary General Hospital has been in the news in recent times due to the escalating trolley crisis in the hospital. The crisis has now reached breaking point. Political will and effort has not delivered a change to the status of the hospitals crisis. Let’s make no mistake, those working at the hospital are working…

  • Trolley crisis at South Tipp General now utterly inhumane – McGrath

    Independent TD Mattie McGrath has launched a scathing attack on the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar after the number of patients on trolleys at South Tipperary General Hospital (STGH) reached 27. Deputy McGrath was speaking after visiting the A&E Department of the hospital following serious concerns that the situation with respect to trolley numbers is…

  • Our apathy towards Healthcare is creating waiting lists

    by Mike Edwards Hospital waiting lists and bed shortages can be laid at the door of successive Ministers for a multitude of reasons, yet as usual those in power choose to ignore these reasons and subject those on waiting lists to platitudes and falsehoods. If as an administration they can justify allowing multinational, multi billion…

  • “Scandal of four year wait for orthodontic treatment continues,” McGrath

    Independent TD Mattie McGrath has slammed the HSE for its lack of progress in reducing the extraordinary waiting times for orthodontic and dental treatment being endured by South Tipperary residents. Deputy McGrath was speaking after he was contacted by parents who had just been told their daughter would have to wait until August 2015 before…