More than 10,000 people left waiting on hospital trolleys in February

Staff at University Hospital Limerick today wheeling a trolley carrying a patient into a corridor in the hospital’s cramped Emergency Department 

More than 10,000 people were left waiting for beds across Irish hospitals for February — the third-highest number since records have been tracked.

New data, released by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), shows that 10,040 people were on trolleys for the month, an increase of 171 on the figure from 2022.