A&E task force ‘is failing to resolve problems’

A key member of the emergency department task force set up to tackle overcrowding said it has become expert at “measuring the problems, describing the problems, but not resolving them”.

“I am very disappointed that it has become a regular exercise in production of flow-charts, graphics and attendance records but it isn’t delivering in the hospitals,” said Liam Doran, general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

“It has a great ability to describe and measure but not to resolve”.