FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/00962
- Request Date
- May 11, 2016
- Subject
- Staff Shortages
- Description
In the past 12 months, have you suspended any acute services because of a shortage of doctors or nurses to staff the service?
If yes:
- a) Which services were suspended?
b) How many suspensions have there been?
c) What was the longest period a service was suspended for?
2. Intensive care services: Are any ITU beds closed?If yes: a) How many times in the past 12 months have ITU beds had to be closed?
- Response
- No acute services have been suspended because of a shortage of doctors or nurses to staff the service.
- No intensive care services have been suspended because of a shortage of doctors or nurses to staff the service and no beds in ITU have been closed.