A three-hour waiting limit for ambulances to hand over patients to A&E departments will apply at all NI hospitals and patients medically fit for discharge will leave hospital within 48 hours, trusts agree:
The chief executive of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said the system was under probably the greatest pressure it had ever been.
"We particularly need them to work with us around taking family members home, or discharging them into appropriate care homes when they become medically fit, when their care and their treatment in hospital is over," Mr Bloomfield said. The NIAS chief said the patients who currently faced the "greatest risk" were those who were ill and waiting on ambulances to arrive and those who were waiting "far too long" in the backs of ambulances for admission to EDs
They said they expected the current pressures to intensify after Christmas and into the early months of next year.
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