Queues of ambulances form outside NI’s over-capacity hospitals

Medical staff attending to two patients in an ambulance, at Antrim Area Hospital, Co Antrim in Northern Ireland (PA)

Queues of ambulances formed outside several hospitals in Northern Ireland as pressure continued to mount on the region’s over-capacity health service.

The scenes unfolded as First Minister Arlene Foster participated in a call with other UK political leaders to review the planned relaxation of restrictions on household gatherings over Christmas.