Hospital trolley figures - Real results needed from hospital plan

THE time-worn adage that ‘doctors differ and patients die’ is especially apt in the latest controversy embroiling the health service.

Not for the first time, sick patients have become the meat in the sandwich as key sectors within the service row about overcrowding in the country’s hospitals.

Patients languishing on trolleys will look askance at the dispute between nurses and administrators over claims from the Health Services Executive (HSE) that hospital overcrowding is on the way down.