602 on hospital trolleys today, Health experts warn massive redesign is needed

Update 4pm: Health experts have warned that the hospital overcrowding crisis will continue unless there's a massive redesign of Ireland's health system.

DCU health professor Anthony Staines says the system needs to be redesigned so that hospitals are a patient's last resort: "Simon Harris has a really tough job, but my experience with the people involved is that they are all working very hard, they are all working very focused to improve things.