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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Sophie Collins

New figures show smaller hospitals 'under the most pressure' amid current trolley crisis

New figures have shown that the hospitals bearing the brunt of the current trolley crisis are in fact the smaller ones nationwide - despite larger hospitals ‘grabbing headlines’.

That’s according to Denis Naughten TD, who carried out an analysis of the hospital trolley numbers compared to the overall number of beds available at each hospital.

The figures show there were just seven beds in Nenagh Hospital for every patient on a trolley on average last month.

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