There are 573 people waiting on trolleys around the country this morning, according to INMO's Trolley Watch.

Fianna Fáil’s health spokesperson Stephen Donnelly has criticised the “massive lottery post code” when it comes to children’s health services.

Almost 17,000 children are waiting for treatment in acute hospitals in the south-southwest, it has emerged.

There are 388 people waiting for hospital beds across the country this morning, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

There is outrage this evening after new figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund show record highs for the number of people waiting for outpatient hospital appointments.

Seven acute hospitals had 30 or more admitted patients waiting for a bed today and the worst-hit hospital was University Hospital Limerick with 76 waiting.

Ireland's hospital waiting lists have increased by more than 10% over the past year.

There are claims that outpatient waiting lists may be worse than we thought.

There are 505 people waiting on trolleys this morning across the country.

500 patients are waiting on trolleys in hospitals across the country today.

A survey has found that 81% of patients believe they are always treated with respect and dignity in emergency departments around the country.

Health Minister Simon Harris has denied he is failing to meet his own hospital waiting list targets after it emerged almost 1m people are waiting for vital treatment and services because of serious logjams in the system.

The Government has been accused by the National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) of manipulating hospital waiting lists.

The HSE has recruited almost three times more administrative and managerial staff than front-line nurses in the past three years.

The Government is facing fresh claims that it is failing to address spiralling health waiting list delays after a patient was told a hospital could not see him for a neurological condition until at least 2024.

There are more than 600 patients waiting to be admitted to hospitals around the country today.

The Health Minister Simon Harris has been told to "get a grip" over hospital waiting lists for children.

Health Minister Simon Harris has said that the Government needs to examine why large numbers of people are missing outpatient appointments in hospitals.

Barnardos says the damage to children as they wait years for essential health services cannot be understated.

The number of people waiting too long for hospital treatment has fallen, the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.

There has been a 95% increase in the last decade in the number of patients on trolleys in hospitals around the country, according to the latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have revealed tonight that a record number of people have spent time waiting on trolleys so far this year.

Update 7pm: Sinn Féin says the HSE's stated aim of bringing down scoliosis surgery wait times to four months is unlikely to be met by the end of the year.

The health minister wants heads on plates over the emergency department crisis, but the labyrinthine management structures in the health services may make his targets hard to choose. Caroline O’Doherty tries to untangle a very messy bureaucratic web.

A number of politicians have welcomed what appears to be a breakthrough in finding a solution to tackling excessive gynaecological waiting lists at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH).

A Limerick mother of two autistic sons will have an anxious wait tomorrow for a phone call with, hopefully, potentially life-saving news.

The chief executive of one the country’s largest maternity hospitals is facing an unprecedented revolt among doctors because of chronic underinvestment in its gynaecology service where 4,193 women are awaiting outpatient appointments.

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Health Minister Simon Harris will “seriously consider” the potential creation of a single national hospital waiting list to replace individual facility lists after the proposal was put forward by the opposition.

The Private Hospitals Association has stated that public and private hospitals should work together on solutions to reduce waiting times and lists for patients.

The HSE has admitted it does not know how long patients are waiting for medical treatment either for hospital procedures or at A&E.

The health minister has been accused of placing patients at the mercy of profit margins after admitting he is in favour of contracting out the management of under- performing public hospitals to private companies.