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Average wait time in Cavan A&E more than doubles since 2015

May 11, 2022 14:47 By News Northern Sound
Average wait time in Cavan A&E more than doubles since 2015
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The HSE has a "patient experience time" target of six hours to admit or discharge a patient.

The average wait time to be admitted to Cavan General Hospital has more than doubled since 2015.

Sitting at 13.3 hours in 2022, the delays locally are slightly longer than the national average.

Seriously ill patients have to wait on average 13 hours in an emergency department before they're admitted to hospital.

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New figures provided by the HSE, show people attending Tallaght University Hospital in the first quarter of the year waited on average 24 and half hours from registering as a patient to being admitted to a ward - the longest wait in the country.

The HSE has a "patient experience time" target of six hours to admit or discharge a patient.

The wait in Cavan General Hospital is 13.3 hours, and has been increasing year on year.

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In 2015, the average wait was 6.3 hours.

Our Lady's in Navan has a wait of 11.9 hours, it's 10.6 in Our Lady of Lourdes in Drogheda.

St Luke's in Kilkenny has the lowest Emergency Department wait time in 2022, at just under 3 hours.

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