WITH a record 600+ people on trolleys in emergency rooms, it seems timely to post this set of documents on the so-called Winter Initiative to tackle overcrowding. In the Irish Times this morning, Simon Harris was reported as saying nobody could have predicted things would be so bad. Except the HSE had warned that the … Continue reading Health Minister says nobody could see overcrowding crisis coming … except for HSE who warned Department of Health and were asked to downplay risk