{"id":606164,"date":"2026-08-27T11:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/606164\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:46:12","slug":"462-patients-waiting-on-hospital-trolleys-across-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/606164\/","title":{"rendered":"462 Patients Waiting On Hospital Trolleys Across Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 27 August 2026 11:14\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/60658b00c2d52.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Seven people are on waiting lists at Midlands hospitals.\n        <\/p>\n<p>462 admitted patients are on hospital trolleys this morning.<\/p>\n<p>INMO figures show 293 of those are in emergency departments while 169 are in wards elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise currently has four people waiting for beds, with three people waiting at the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar.<\/p>\n<p>University Hospital Limerick is the most overcrowded, with 62 people waiting for beds, followed by Sligo University Hospital with 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 27 August 2026 11:14 Seven people are on waiting lists at Midlands hospitals. 462 admitted patients are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-606164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606164","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=606164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}