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James Connolly Hospital Closing after 6pm each day

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  • #32
    Dozen Wicked Words
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    whippet wrote: »
    Jcmh to beaumont in an ambulance after hours would take a matter of five minutes .... And more serious cases presented to these hospitals are in many cases diverted or transferred to Beaumont .. Espc head injuries.

    I've been in the a&e at blanch late at night and the vast majority of people presenting are there due to drunken fighting, falling while pissed and other drinking related matters ..... No urgency there and if there is send them 5 mins up the road to a better hospital

    So the wait people currently experience in the hospital 5 mins up the road is going to get much worse. No money will be given to it to help with the increase in numbers, no further beds for emergency admissions will magically become available. Regardless of how much of a waste of time a lot of the clientel are, they aren't going to magically disappear, they are going to clog up the A and E depts. left.


  • #33
    mikemac
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    Paul.C wrote: »
    This hospital is a valuable asset to the area and ignoring this closure will result in nothing more than Job cuts and needless fatalities.

    I suppose what's happening in Dublin, well it's already happened around Ireland
    And if you live in West Clare it can be over sixty km to Limerick Regional since they downgraded Ennis

    There were plently of posts on boards about unviable county hospitals and the need to centralize.

    Maybe if the nearest hospital to James Connolly was sixty km away your first post would be different OP
    But for now, the Mater and Beaumont are close so realy, your situation isn't that bad


  • #34
    The_Thing
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    On the few occasions that I've had to attend an A+E department it always seemed to be full of travellers, clogging up a system thay didn't contribute a cent towards.


  • #35
    swordofislam
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    Paul.C wrote: »

    Also the negative affect of staff cuts here will choke Dublin-West even more.
    Not my problem. Hospitals exist to serve patients they are not a job creation scheme.
    Paul.C wrote: »
    I am directing all the blame here at the HSE and the present-government in general and not at the staff and hospital itself.
    Nothing to do with the last government at all.

    I will organise a close Blanch hospital campaign. If it was gone we could go to decent hospitals like James', Mater and Beaumont.


  • #36
    Paul.C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Paul.C


    mikemac wrote: »
    I suppose what's happening in Dublin, well it's already happened around Ireland
    And if you live in West Clare it can be over sixty km to Limerick Regional since they downgraded Ennis

    There were plently of posts on boards about unviable county hospitals and the need to centralize.

    Maybe if the nearest hospital to James Connolly was sixty km away your first post would be different OP
    But for now, the Mater and Beaumont are close so realy, you're situation isn't that bad

    If we built a massive hospital in Dublin city centre that could cope with the population of Dublin then I wouldnt have posted at all. If the A+E closes in blanchardstown then there will be massive increases in other hospitals that are already running at the limit.

    To my knowledge, the population of fingal is 273,051 a lot of which are in JCs catchment area. It runs services to a population of 290,000. The Hospital’s catchment area extends into West Dublin, Meath & Kildare.

    These numbers would indicate a massive increase in numbers attending the mater hospital which don't really look sustainable. I would understand the HSEs move if the mater was massively extended and necessary staff were transferred over, but will that happen? I dont believe so, I believe they will shut it down and panic when the mater is overrun with patients.


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  • #37
    Paul.C
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭Paul.C


    whippet wrote: »
    Jcmh to beaumont in an ambulance after hours would take a matter of five minutes .... And more serious cases presented to these hospitals are in many cases diverted or transferred to Beaumont .. Espc head injuries.

    I've been in the a&e at blanch late at night and the vast majority of people presenting are there due to drunken fighting, falling while pissed and other drinking related matters ..... No urgency there and if there is send them 5 mins up the road to a better hospital
    JC to beaumont is 15.7km at the fastest route. An ambulance driving at 100kmph would make it in 9 minutes. Dont forget it would have to come from there too. Thats 18 minutes, plus delays plus initial first aid etc. It could be 35mins plus to from 999 call to arrival at hospital. And lets not forget that ambulances rarely arrive fast. Also thats from JC right beside M50. D15 is a very big area and to the furthest point in the catchment area can take another 10-15minutes each way. So yes it would have an affect on some people. For a person after suffering stroke or massive heart attack this could be the difference between life and death etc.


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