Trolley numbers hit second highest level

University Hospital Limerick had the highest number of patients on trolleys yesterday, according to figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

There were 49 patients awaiting admission to a bed in the Limerick hospital; 25 were in the emergency department and 24 were on wards.

The INMO’s trolley and ward watch shows there were 544 patients on trolleys in emergency departments or on wards yesterday, the second-highest figure this year.