{"id":450270,"date":"2026-05-15T13:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450270\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:33:08","slug":"trolley-watch-422-people-waiting-for-beds-across-ireland-homepage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/450270\/","title":{"rendered":"Trolley watch: 422 people waiting for beds across Ireland &#8211; Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Kenneth Fox<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A total of 422 admitted patients are on hospital trolleys on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">University Hospital Limerick is the most overcrowded, with 78 people waiting for beds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That is followed by St Vincent&#8217;s University Hospital with 39.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Of the total number of people on trolleys, 283 are in emergency departments, while 139 are in wards elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That is down from 575 people waiting for beds back on March 23rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">University Hospital Limerick accounted for the largest number, with 96, followed by Cork University Hospital with 54.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">There were 43 people on trolleys in St Vincent&#8217;s University Hospital, and 40 in Beaumont Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenneth Fox A total of 422 admitted patients are on hospital trolleys on Friday. University Hospital Limerick is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-450270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450270","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=450270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}