Revealed: The number of patients who left MUH Emergency Department early
This represents 3.2 per cent of patients in the ED of the hospital this year, with 27,644 people admitted between January and July.
Nearly 900 patients left Mayo University Hospital’s Emergency Department without receiving the completion of their treatment this year.
Figures show 895 patients at MUH left the ED without the completion of their treatment in the first seven months of this year.
This represents 3.2 per cent of patients in the ED of the hospital this year, with 27,644 people admitted between January and July.
Last year, 1,062 patients did not wait to complete their treatment in the hospital’s ED, representing 2.3 per cent of people coming through the ED.
Between 2021 and 2026, 6,980 patients left before completing treatment at Mayo University Hospital.
The data was obtained from the HSE under a parliamentary question, submitted by the chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Health, Social Democrats TD Pádraig Rice.
It showed over 70,000 people across the country left hospitals without receiving the completion of their treatment.
The figures also revealed that 77 patients waited over 24 hours in the ED at MUH before they were admitted in the first seven months of this year.
58.1 per cent of people were seen within six hours of attending the emergency department, while 77.8 per cent were seen within nine hours.
99.7 per cent of patients were seen within 24 hours.
On average, in the first seven months of this year, patients are admitted in 6.4 hours after attending the emergency department.
This is an improvement on last year, when patients waited an average of eight hours.
The average waiting time in ED’s for patients between January and July was 9.3 hours.
