Three options to solve Limerick hospital’s trolley crisis – which will Jennifer Carroll MacNeill choose?
By Eilish O Regan
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Even before the winter flu surge, there were 23 patients on trolleys waiting for a bed for more than 24 hours in University Hospital Limerick (UHL) yesterday.
The pressure is unrelenting and at the heart of the ongoing risk to patient safety is a lack of beds, a recent in-depth analysis by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) makes clear.
