{"id":680406,"date":"2026-11-10T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/680406\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T11:36:08","slug":"cuh-care-being-on-par-with-other-hospitals-is-not-reassuring-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/680406\/","title":{"rendered":"CUH care being \u2018on par\u2019 with other hospitals is not reassuring \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 In relation to Cork University Hospital (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork-university-hospital-cuh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cork-university-hospital-cuh\/\">CUH<\/a>) \u201cMinister for Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jennifer-carroll-macneill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/jennifer-carroll-macneill\/\">Jennifer Carroll Mac Neill<\/a> has said the metrics to measure safety are not signalling anything out of the ordinary, and it is on par with other hospitals\u201d (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/11\/07\/people-will-die-the-secret-recording-the-taoiseach-and-turmoil-at-corks-main-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/ireland\/2026\/11\/07\/people-will-die-the-secret-recording-the-taoiseach-and-turmoil-at-corks-main-hospital\/\">\u2018People will die\u2019: The secret recording, the Taoiseach and turmoil at Cork\u2019s main hospital<\/a>, Ireland, November 7th). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">This is a real \u201cYes Minister\u201d moment. The ordinary state of affairs in Irish hospitals is unsafe. Excessively long waiting lists, patients waiting on trolleys and chairs in emergency departments and hospital surge areas for a bed mean compromised care. Such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/health\/\">healthcare<\/a>, which may not be out of the ordinary, is unsafe and being \u201con par\u201d with other hospitals should be no reassurance to anyone. \u2013 Yours, etc, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dr PEADAR GILLIGAN,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Emergency medicine consultant,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 In relation to Cork University Hospital (CUH) \u201cMinister for Health Jennifer Carroll Mac Neill has said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[46,50043,103,397,396,61,60,1421],"class_list":["post-680406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-cork","tag-cork-university-hospital-cuh","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680406","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=680406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}