Almost half of elderly A&E patients not treated within nine-hour timeframe

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) said that 101,000 patients were treated on a trolley, chair, or in another inappropriate space in hospitals in the first 10 months of the year. File Picture.

Almost half of all elderly patients are not being treated within the HSE's own targeted timeframes for emergency departments. 

New data on emergency departments shows that just 53% of patients aged over 75 years were either admitted to hospital or discharged within the targeted nine-hour timeframe.