ALL HOSPITALS in the State have been urged to stop using hospital corridors to accommodate patients following a damning report which found the practice was putting lives at risk.
An investigation by the Health Information and Quality Authority has severely criticised Dublin’s Tallaght hospital for its “persistent tolerance” of leaving patients on trolleys for long periods.
Other hospitals were also struggling to deal with overcrowding, the report found. On a single day in August last year, an audit by the authority found 24 out of 25 emergency departments failed to meet targets for waiting times. A further nine hospitals failed to provide any data.
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