Next week’s Irish Association for Emergency Medicine’s 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting has a particular focus on the care of the older patient and is...
2016 Annual Scientific Meeting promises to be the best ever
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ED crowding continues to cost lives and create misery
On the day of Budget 2017 a total of 438 patients languished on trolleys in Ireland’s Acute Hospitals, 352 of these in the country’s 29 Emergency...
Association looks forward to its 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine holds its 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting and AGM at the Clontarf Castle Hotel, Dublin on 20th and 21st...
IAEM Press Release expressing disappointment in HSE 2016/17 Winter Initiative
While the Association welcomes any move to address ED crowding caused by the practice of lodging admitted hospital inpatients in the ED, the HSE...
IAEM press release warning of dangers of avoiding dealing with the health service capacity problem
This week we learned that the National Neurosurgical Unit at Beaumont Hospital is unable to meet the demand for urgent surgery for patients with...
IAEM welcomes launch of National Ambulance Patient Handover Protocol
The vast majority of the sickest patients who attend Emergency Departments (EDs) around Ireland are brought there by ambulance. It has long been...