HSE report raises concerns over the way the patients are dealt with
The health body set a target for 2015 that no patients would be stuck in emergency departments for more than 24 hours. However, the annual report for last year shows that, by year-end almost 4% of attendees in the A&Es were there for longer than that.
Furthermore, it fell well below its target of having 95% of A&E attendees discharged or admitted within six hours. By the end of 2015 that had been the case for just 68.2% of patients.
