{"id":247452,"date":"2026-01-16T07:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247452\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:17:12","slug":"portlaoise-hospital-appeals-to-public-as-wait-times-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/247452\/","title":{"rendered":"Portlaoise hospital appeals to public as wait times rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise is experiencing increasing numbers of people requiring admission and patients are being asked, where possible, to seek help from other parts of the health service.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital management say they are monitoring the situation closely but said patients presenting at the emergency department, with non-urgent conditions, are experiencing very long waiting times.<\/p>\n<p>Management is asking patients with non-emergency conditions to seek assistance from other parts of the health service including their local pharmacist, GP, GP out-of-hours service, or a local injury unit.<\/p>\n<p>However management said in a statement that any patient who needs emergency hospital care will be seen at Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise and should not delay attending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise is experiencing increasing numbers of people requiring admission and patients are being asked,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-247452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247452","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=247452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}