Emergency Department

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has said it is ‘deeply concerned’ about the conditions patients and health workers will face over the coming months.

Highly critical RVH report could have been more damning, nurses argue, while RQIA chief executive says there is a danger people will say they have heard it all before.

It has long been recognised that our hospital emergency departments often find themselves operating under intolerable pressure, but a new report has set out some of the alarming consequences of this systemic failure.

HEALTH chiefs last night warned of a "serious mismatch" between demand for care and the capacity to deliver it amid intensifying pressures on hospitals and the care system. The stark warning from the Department of Health came as it emerged a...

Emergency room staff in one hospital were in “dire straits” yesterday with more than 100 people waiting to be treated and close to 50 not able to be admitted.

EMERGENCY care in Northern Ireland is under acute strain with an A&E department and the ambulance service today sounding warnings to patients.

ONE of Northern Ireland's busiest A&E departments has revealed a spike in attendances following a dramatic drop during the coronavirus outbreak.

WAITING times in Northern Ireland's A&E departments have risen dramatically over the past year, according to new figures.

For ordinary people in Northern Ireland, the thought of being paid £1,500 to stay in a four-star hotel overnight with the possibility of not having to do any work, is absolutely staggering.