HSE: 12,000 patients on trolleys next month

Health chiefs are already predicting there will be more than 12,000 sick people languishing on hospital trolleys for want of a bed next month.

The final draft of the HSE’s winter plan predicts that the trolley count in January 2019 will be 12,378, an increase of 876 (7.60%) on January 2018, when there were 11,502.