Trolley numbers down significantly on Paddys weekend - the fix was rostering...

Clinic nurses do not, theatre nurses do not, day ward nurses do not. ED and ward nurses do (and on-call theatre)

Overcrowding and understaffing is a large issue in the wards and a lot of backlog in ED is trying to free up bed space in the wards.

All?

So you are unilaterally tearing up the contracts of nurses, radiographers, sonographers, phlebotomists, administration et al ?

We don't have enough ward and theatre nurses, for Mon-Fri, and you want to open elective theatres and day wards on the weekend too?

Do NOT blame the staff for governments not building new hospitals, abdicating housing to the private market (meaning nurses can't even get housing near the hospital), and allowing conditions become so bad that our young staff are leaving.

Hell, the nurses we imported from India are going to Australia for better conditions and family visas.

We do not have the support staff to operate a full service 7 day a week hospital

What bed?

ED is full of people waiting for a bed. I had a PE 2 years back and it took until my 4th night to be admitted.

There are not enough physical beds and, where there may be, the nurse:patient ratio is outside safe staffing levels

Our hospitals were creaking, for space and staff, 20 years ago and no hospitals have been built. Where is the physical ward space coming from?

Edit: As we saw during the pandemic, our hospitals are being propped up through the exploitation of students

Guidelines like, say, safe staffing levels? I alluded to that. Where there are actual bed spaces (very limited) there are not enough staff to offer safe care

That's... not how it works

And that's been discussed. How will you see an increase? There has been no talk of getting more staff, just pushing existing staff to a 7 day roster

Current staffing levels are pushing out the maximum number of surgeries they can do. Adding 2 days, with split staff, will not increase the amount of surgeries that same level of people can do.

Again, CUH is contemplating rolling theatre closures during their current week as they do NOT have enough staff to safely manage current workload.

Ward staff are already completely overloaded because we have no step down facilities which causes a massive backlog in current bedding levels. Adding more facilities leaning on a limited number of beds/staff will not work

There is so much more physical infrastructure needed (and staffed) with our current system before any major change to roster will have a lasting effect. Ignoring the fact that you are unilaterally deciding to completely rip up the contracts of thousands of people