Today’s HIQA reports are published while 605 patients are without a bed in Irish hospitals.
HIQA has found that three hospitals including Cork University Maternity Hospital were not fully compliant with required staffing levels during inspections last year.
Visits to CUMH, University Hospital Kerry and Tallaght University Hospital took place between late September and October.
HIQA’s report at CUMH highlights the crisis in midwifery staffing that exists in many maternity units across the country.
INMO says it is unacceptable that nurses are not in a position to provide one to one support for women in labour.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called on Government to ‘heed the warnings’ about unsafe staffing in the reports.
Today’s trolley figures show there are 87 admitted patients without a hospital bed in Cork.
There are 71 at CUH, 9 at the Mercy and 7 at Bantry General Hospital.
