Hospital overcrowding 'a growing concern': Acute-hospitals boss

The HSE's assistant national director of acute hospitals has said overcrowding in emergency departments is "unacceptable" and a "growing concern".

Hospital overcrowding 'a growing concern': Acute-hospitals boss

The HSE's assistant national director of acute hospitals has said overcrowding in emergency departments is "unacceptable" and a "growing concern".

Angela Fitzgerald was speaking after the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation announced that its members at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital have voted in favour of a work-to-rule over the issue.

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