Trolleywatch records almost 450 patients awaiting hospital admission

Up to 440 patients are waiting on trolleys at hospitals nationwide today.

That is according to the INMO, which found Cork University Hospital is the worst affected with 43 people awaiting a bed.

That is followed by 41 at University Hospital Limerick and 36 at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.

In all, there are 311 patients on trolleys awaiting admission with a further 129 in overflow wards elsewhere in the hospitals.

Six of those patients are children under the age of 16.