500 patients stuck waiting to be discharged home from hospital

Its figures also show there were 385 people on trolleys waiting for a bed around the country today even though it is only mid-September.

There were 500 patients stuck in hospital at the start of this month waiting to go home after their treatment had finished, new HSE data shared at the Emergency Department Taskforce shows.

The taskforce which includes health unions, the Department of Health, and patient advocates, met today to discuss the growing crisis in hospitals.