The Government has announced 74 million euro in new funding to tackle emergency department overcrowding.
44 million euro is going towards 16-hundred nursing home beds – while 30 million will be used on new transitional beds in communities.
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The Health Minister says work on the scheme to tackle delayed discharges has already begun – but it will take ‘eight weeks’ to fully implement.
Leo Varadkar admits the overcrowding crisis won’t be fixed overnight, but says today’s announcement will have an impact.
