What can be done to address hospital overcrowding?

Published: April 23, 2024, 7 a.m.

The Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick was \u201cakin to a war zone\u201d on the weekend that 16-year-old sepsis patient Aoife Johnston died there. That\u2019s what Clinical Nurse Manager Katherine Skelly told the inquest into Aoife\u2019s death yesterday. 

But more than a year after her passing, has anything been done to address the overcrowding crisis?  We heard from Professor Conor Deasy, President of the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine.