Nurses: Overcrowding being hidden from public view

Nurses have warned that the Tallaght emergency department overcrowding crisis is being hidden from public view and not resolved, despite senior government figures insisting this is not happening.

Derek Reilly, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation industrial relations officer, said the recent reduction in the unit’s overcrowding crisis was based as much on massaging figures as on genuine improvements to the service.

The official welcomed the Health Information and Quality Authority report.