Emergency care pressures in Northern Ireland will cause more unnecessary deaths, VP_NI_RCEM has warned
Dr Paul Kerr said there was "a dreadful crowding situation" at emergency departments in Northern Ireland
"We have a dreadful crowding situation and we have perhaps 450 patients lying on trolleys at this moment in time, queuing literally to get into hospital for emergency treatment," he told BBC News NI. "There are staff leaving because of this very problem and they are being brutalised by this system suffering what we would call moral injury.
It said that for the longer term, the department had "been clear on the need for sustained action to build greater capacity - including sustained, significant investment and reconfiguration of services".
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