Northern Irish healthcare in crisis amid political deadlock
by Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent from on (#660B6)
Family doctors due to vote on radical proposals to try to save overstretched system from collapse
A patient dies in a chair awaiting treatment. Other patients wait all night in ambulances. Hospitals are so understaffed they tell the public to stay away. One hospital suspends emergency general surgery.
Another week, another slew of headlines about Northern Ireland's healthcare crisis, by some measures the worst in the UK.
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