The HSE is spending an increasing amount of money on overtime for staff, new figures show.<\/p>\n
From January 2022 to the end of August this year, acute hospital overtime expenditure was around \u20ac1.7 billion.<\/p>\n
Most of the overtime is on medical and dental work, nursing, support services and administration.<\/p>\n
Among the largest individual hospital overtime bills last year were: Beaumont Hospital (\u20ac30m), the Mater Hospital (\u20ac30m), Cork University Hospital (\u20ac30m), University Hospital Limerick (\u20ac30m) and St Vincent’s University Hospital (\u20ac25m).<\/p>\n
The data was secured through a parliamentary question from Sinn F\u00e9in’s Spokesperson on Health David Cullinane.<\/p>\n
Deputy Cullinane said the figures show the extraordinary pressure hospitals and hospital staff are under.<\/p>\n
He said the overtime money is being spent at the same time that hospitals are struggling to get urgent and priority posts filled.<\/p>\n
He said that doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers are being relied upon to work enormous levels of overtime to keep services running.<\/p>\n
In 2022, the acute hospital overtime bill was \u20ac316m.<\/p>\n
Last year, it rose to \u20ac393m.<\/p>\n
“At the very same time, we effectively have a recruitment embargo by another name. Priority posts are not being filled,” Deputy Cullinane added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The HSE is spending an increasing amount of money on overtime for staff, new figures show. From January…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-673726","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\/673726","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=673726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}