{"id":573017,"date":"2026-07-29T01:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573017\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:38:12","slug":"trolley-watch-457-patients-waiting-for-hospital-beds-across-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/573017\/","title":{"rendered":"Trolley watch: 457 patients waiting for hospital beds across Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were 457 admitted patients waiting for beds on Tuesday, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation&#8217;s (INMO) trolley watch figures.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 457 patients, 280 are waiting in the emergency department, while 177 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In Dublin, St Vincent\u2019s University Hospital has the highest number, with 32 waiting in the emergency department, while Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown has the lowest,\u00a0with two waiting in the emergency department.<\/p>\n<p>In the rest of the country, the highest was University Hospital Limerick with 94 patients total waiting for a bed, and the lowest was Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Ennis with one patient.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were 457 admitted patients waiting for beds on Tuesday, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-573017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573017","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=573017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}