THE HSE has launched an internal review of the trolley crisis after hospitals across the country failed to manage the recent surge in emergency department patient numbers.

The HSE is advising people to stay away from hospitals across the country unless absolutely necessary due to an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.

Caroline O’Doherty reviews the National Cancer Control Strategy, which provides the opportunity to see whether specialist centres are the best means to survival.

MORE THAN 80 operations and other scheduled procedures are cancelled every day in hospitals around the country because of shortages of beds and staff, according to health experts.

Nurses hit out at hospital management today accusing them of attempting to hide the escalating crisis in the country’s accident and emergency wards.

THE inquiry into the activities of a nurse being investigated for the unauthorised administering of drugs to three elderly patients, two of whom died, is to be widened to include her work at a Dublin hospital.