{"id":231689,"date":"2026-01-07T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231689\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:42:09","slug":"second-midlands-hospital-experiencing-admissions-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231689\/","title":{"rendered":"Second midlands hospital experiencing admissions spike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another hospital in the midlands is experiencing increasing numbers of people requiring admission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/regional\/2026\/0105\/1551597-midland-hospital-tullamore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yesterday, Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore opened additional beds to deal with increased capacity.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement today, Regional Hospital Mullingar said the hospital was experiencing increasing numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Patients with non-emergency conditions are being urged to seek assistance elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital said patients who are not in need or urgent attention are being asked, where possible, to consult with their pharmacist, GP or out-of-hours GP service.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital said patients presenting at the emergency department with non-urgent conditions are experiencing very long waiting times.<\/p>\n<p>Visiting restrictions are also in place at the hospital due to the high number of respiratory infections circulating in the community.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital apologised for any inconvenience caused and thanked the public for their support and understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another hospital in the midlands is experiencing increasing numbers of people requiring admission. Yesterday, Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-231689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}