A senator has hit out at the Government after the emergency department of University Hospital Waterford (UHW) was forced to turn patients away due to overcrowding.

The HSE’s acting national director of acute hospitals, Angela Fitzgerald, was asked eight times on RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland if emergency departments are safe but failed to answer.

ALMOST 500 people are set to protest on Good Friday over the high number of people on trolleys in hospital A&E departments.

MEDICAL representatives, patient groups and opposition parties have thrown cold water on the Health Service Executive's (HSE) battle plan for tackling the country's ongoing A&E crisis.

A DAMNING report on the Accident and Emergency crisis has strongly criticised bed management and consultants’ practices in 23 major acute hospitals nationwide.