{"id":395856,"date":"2026-04-13T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395856\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:17:09","slug":"i-could-have-done-cartwheels-on-the-corridor-health-minister-questions-why-hospital-was-so-quiet-at-weekend-despite-patient-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395856\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I could have done cartwheels on the corridor\u2019 \u2013 Health Minister questions why hospital was so quiet at weekend despite patient demand"},"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 told the Irish Medical Organisation\u2019s conference it is essential for all hospitals to end the old Monday-to-Friday model\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill wants to have a six-day system in all hospitals\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/121865324.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 wants to have a six-day system in all hospitals<\/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)\">Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said she could have \u201cdone cartwheels in the corridor\u201d of a major hospital as it was so empty on a \u00adSaturday, sparking questions about why clinics, machines and theatres are not used more.<\/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)\">The minister made the spot visit, which is part of her style, to St James\u2019s Hospital in Dublin in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Carroll MacNeill told the Irish Medical Organisation\u2019s conference it is essential for all hospitals to end the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3414,4593,2120,61,60,1421,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-395856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-eilish-oregan","10":"tag-hse","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill","14":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395856","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=395856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}