Irish Examiner view: Hospital crisis can't become normalised

Amid the hospital overcrowding crisis, management's focus should be on patients and staff 

With the record number of patients forced to wait in hospital corridors and horrifying personal testimonies, there is a sense that the crowding situation has gone beyond crisis. 

The level of overcrowding in our hospitals has been a crisis for so long, unfortunately, that the situation has become almost normalised.

The rising numbers of patients lying on trolleys, to take just one of the more visible markers of the problem, has become as regular an update as the daily weather forecast.