A&Es ‘screaming out’ to be fixed as doctors warn one size fits all approach won't work

Doctors have warned that any attempt to impose a “one size fits all approach” to the crisis in hospital emergency departments will not work.

The president of the Irish Medical Organisation, Dr Ray Walley, said any policy response must be flexible enough to deal with local issues and not be constrained by unworkable, nationally- imposed solutions.

He was responding to the system-wide escalation framework and procedures to tackle overcrowding unveiled by the emergency department taskforce implementation group.