Almost 540 waiting on hospital trolley's one day after planned nurses strike cancelled

Almost 540 people were waiting on trolleys for a hospital bed yesterday — just one day after a planned strike by nurses at seven hospital emergency departments was deferred.

According to figures provided by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, 537 people were waiting on trolleys for a bed yesterday.

The INMO also found that although the level of overcrowding in December decreased by 13% compared to the same month in 2014, there was a 21% increase in overcrowding from January to December 2015 compared to the same period for 2014.