UHL crisis: Delay in Hiqa report on emergency services 'means 12 more months of chaos at UHL'

Campaign groups calling for EDs in smaller hospitals locally to be re-opened as review of emergency services in Limerick, Clare and North Tipperary will not be published until next summer

Surgeries at University Hospital Limerick were cancelled to make way for emergencies. Picture: Brendan Gleeson

It is disappointing a review of emergency services in Limerick, Clare and North Tipperary will take 12 months, the chair of Friends of Ennis Hospital said.

This comes as trolley numbers plummet at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) after surgeries were cancelled to make way for emergencies.