Hospital overcrowding has been a persistent, ingrained issue for the health service for several decades.
Every day, there are many hundreds of patients waiting for admission to a bed around the country.
The issue relates to patients who have been seen by doctors or nurses and a clinical decision has been made that they should be ‘admitted’ to a bed.
But if there is no bed available, they remain on a trolley, or a chair in the emergency department, or on a ward, waiting for admission to a bed.
Overcrowding figures
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