Over, 3,300 patients waited on trolleys in University Hospital Kerry last year.
That’s a rise of over 5%, when compared to the same period the previous year.
The figures were released by the Irish Nurses’ and Midwives’ Organisation.
Nationally, over 114,000 (114,029) patients, including 1,248 children, were admitted to hospital without a bed last year (2025).
Of these, 3,363 were waiting on trolleys at University Hospital Kerry throughout the 12 months of last year.
That’s up from the 3,180 patients that were waiting for a bed throughout all of the previous year (2024.)
In 2023, 3,836 patients waited for a bed at UHK, while the figure stood at 3,474 in 2022.
There were 2,409 people without a bed in 2021 and a further 2,350 people waited on trolleys in UHK in 2019.
INMO General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha, who’s from Ventry, says there needs to be a turning point in how healthcare staffing is planned and managed.
