The Royal College of Surgeon's Northern Ireland director warns that the health system is 'running on red'
, while the Royal College of Emergency Doctors said mitigating measures to get people admitted and out of hospital quicker were "not working".Prof Taylor said cancelling non-urgent surgeries had a knock-on effect on pressures on emergency departments .
"Many of the people coming to EDs are coming with flare-ups of the particular problem they are on a waiting list to be rectified for." Referring to Department of Health stats from November, Prof Taylor said there are more than 375,000 people waiting on a first appointment with a consultant and 124,000 waiting for admission to hospital for surgery or treatment.He said: "The frustration comes from we know why we are in this position, we have rehearsed this for many years now."We have staff reductions, we have the longest waiting lists. We have primary care in great distress.
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