'Headlines, while shocking, capture a system that's beyond broken.' BBC News NI's health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly (mlchealth) looks at the deepening crisis facing Northern Ireland's health service
Amid all the adjectives and numbers, often we forget we are talking about people.Some patients are spending hours in ambulances parked outside hospitals because emergency departments are so busy
There are many unsettling aspects about this week including that this no longer feels like a temporary glitch.If that continues the shock factor will wear off and overcrowded emergency departments could become acceptable. Another called on commissioners to take four hours to "road test" their solutions before introducing them to the "front-facing team on the shop floor".
In the meantime, those running the hospitals are firefighting, without making any real proactive changes.
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