Reilly: Nobody will wait over nine hours on trolley

Ambitious plans to ensure patients will spend no longer than nine hours on a hospital trolleys this year have been revealed by Health Minister James Reilly.

Targets for the Department of Health’s special delivery unit this year also include a maximum nine-month wait for planned surgery.

Last year, Dr Reilly ordered public hospitals to ensure they had no patients waiting over 12 months for elected surgery by the end of 2011.