Emergency department overcrowding 'getting worse, not better' 

A shortage of hospital beds means patients will continue to be left on trolleys.

Overcrowding in emergency departments has not been solved by additional HSE funding as a shortage of hospital beds means patients will continue to be left on trolleys.

Dr Fergal Hickey, Irish Association of Emergency Medicine spokesman, was responding to an Irish Examiner report that 27,129 people left emergency departments (EDs) between July and September before completing treatment.