HSE says 'extensive plans' in place to prevent hospital overcrowding this weekend

HSE COO,  Damien McCallion. File Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

The HSE has insisted that "extensive plans" are in place to prevent hospital overcrowding over the bank holiday weekend.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) indicated yesterday that 527 people who had been admitted to hospital over the previous 24 hours were still waiting for a bed. More than a a hundred of those patients were in University Hospital Limerick (UHL).