Letters to the Editor: Huge change is needed to deal with crises in our hospitals

Patients on trolleys at Cork University Hospital in January 2011, and yet 12 years later we are still dealing with the same crisis across our health service.

I listened with mounting anger to Leo Varadkar telling the nation that it was “unacceptable” that people should have to spend hours or even overnight on a trolley in hospital.

When did it become “unacceptable”? When it reached 500 or 600 or was it only when it reached over 900? Why wasn’t he outraged last year, or five years ago?