{"id":235869,"date":"2026-01-09T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235869\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:19:09","slug":"the-discharge-failures-in-cork-and-galway-are-not-good-enough-health-minister-takes-aim-at-hospitals-slow-to-clear-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235869\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The discharge failures in Cork and Galway are not good enough\u2019 \u2013 Health Minister takes aim at hospitals slow to clear beds"},"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\">Jennifer Carroll MacNeill\u2019s criticism comes as winter bugs add to trolley crisis\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill voiced her displeasure. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/eecfbca5-605e-4097-886c-7aaaede6a257.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)\">Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill voiced her displeasure. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/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)\">Cork University Hospital and Galway University Hospital are the country\u2019s worst performers for tackling their trolley crisis and are not discharging enough patients to free up beds, Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has said.<\/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)\">Patients who no longer needed to be in hospital should not refuse to leave when offered step-down care, even if it is a distance away, because they would be depriving somebody else of a ward bed, the minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Carroll MacNeill\u2019s criticism comes as winter bugs add to trolley crisis Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill voiced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4593,103,397,396,2120,61,60,1421],"class_list":{"0":"post-235869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-hse","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235869","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=235869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}