Accident & Emergency - Beaumont Hospital Hospital Road, Beaumont, Dublin, Dublin 9

"If you feel terrible and go to this emergency, they won’t help you. Receptionist told me to wait 8 hours, which I wasn’t capable of. She doesn’t care and just send me to the private clinic, but they’re not accepting foreigners there, so I don’t get ANY medical help in Dublin at all."

"The lowest point of my life, the rock bottom. You would get better care in a medical war tent during WW2 than E&A in today's Ireland. Even if the doctors and nurses are doing their best, the Beaumont Emergency & Accident is built and staffed to accommodate maybe 20 patients but it is overrun with 200. Nobody is safe in Ireland as there is no proper urgent care and wait time reaching up to 18 hours. The ER receptionist nurse was more concerned about the blood stain on the wooden counter than to get the patient seen. She was giving out about the counter getting dirty (bloody) while patient was trying to register his name and details with her choking in his own blood due to bleeding. After extreme internal and external bleeding, 1 hour wait for ambulance, ended up driving there and then waited another 40 mins by the ER door, heart rate going to dangerous levels due to blood loss but they don't take the patient in, as they have no space. When the patient was in after 40 mins he had to be brought to resuscitation room as it was too late. They don't even have trolleys left where your vitals can be monitored, elderly people, injured sick all getting primitive treatment on chairs. Collective suffering room, no privacy, no comfort for patients a big slap on the face after all the tax we pay for the Irish state. I have never seen such a neglected, primitive and desperate emergency service in my life. How Irish people put up with this inhumane conditions waiting 12 hours to be seen in ER and leaving 5 stars here and accusing "foreigners" for complaining? Unacceptable, no patient public nor private would wait more than 1-2 mins for an emergency service in my native country Turkey, 12h wait is a disgrace. In this day and age this hospital still operates on medieval methods, with paper checklists and phone calls between specialists, nothing is digitalised everything is paper based slow and inefficient. I equally felt so sorry for the hardworking nurses and the doctors inside the A&E they are equally abused by this broken system and obviously overworked and burned out. As long as people leave 5 stars here nothing would improve in this country. Poor health services is the number one reason why skilled expats/locals are leaving this country."

"With a referral for x Ray for suspect broken toe. Should have gone straight from that to be seen but that area was closed so waited 6 hours in a and e instead. Painful."

"Unfortunately, I was here Early hours of Saturday morning, and quite ill, God bless the medical Nurses, Doctors, Support staff that keep this Department going, People from all forms of Life, Are here either working or a patient. Extremely busy, Clean, this hospital needs a lot of attention so does the staff. They are absolutely brilliant. Thanks for everything,"