A meeting of the Department of Health’s Emergency Taskforce has been described as ‘a work in progress at best’.
The group met this morning following an unprecedented number of people on trolleys this week.
The group met under the shadow of the highest number of people on trolleys on record.
While that number has fallen from over 600 this week to 395 today – it’s still almost double the HSE target.
INMO General Secretary Liam Doran questioned the resources being put behind the effort:
63 extra acute beds and 60 stepdown beds were announced last night.
The INMO say they don’t believe there’s enough nurses to staff the extra beds.
But Minister Simon Harris says that’s not the case:
Successive health ministers have failed to end the crisis
But Simon Harris says he wants to be the one who ends it, by looking at long term solutions.
