Twice As Many a& Es As Britain but We Still Wait Longer ; and Mos Survey Shows Majority Face Reduced Hours After New Cutbacks [Eire Region]

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IRELAND has almost twice as many A& E departments as Britain's National Health Service per head of population - yet emergency patients can wait up to three times as long, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal.

An investigation into emergency services in 40 hospitals nationwide found there is one full-time A& E for every 105,996 people in Ireland.

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Twice As Many a& Es As Britain but We Still Wait Longer ; and Mos Survey Shows Majority Face Reduced Hours After New Cutbacks [Eire Region]

But while Britain's average is one casualty unit to just under 250,000 people, fewer than 2pc of patients wait longer than four hours to be treated..

Here, more than two-thirds of patients have to wait in excess of six hours before being seen by the HSE - a statistic brought painfully home to...

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