Doctor: I had a duty to identify poor care

The consultant in the eye of the storm over the trolley wait controversy said he was duty-bound to highlight a “gross governance failure”.

Dr James Gray, a consultant in emergency medicine at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin, highlighted the case of a 91-year-old man who spent 29 hours on a trolley .

Just days later it emerged that a 93-year-old woman also spent 29 hours on a hospital trolley at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.