New figures reveal a patient was left waiting in an ambulance for more than a day outside ... in the emergency departments are unable to find beds and those arriving are unable to be transferred.” ...

He said that ambulance crews are currently facing ... "The reality is that we have been in the hundreds of patients waiting for beds in our hospitals for the last number of months.

The ambulance service has not commented further on the specific patient, but said they were ... 954 waiting to be seen and 462 queuing for a bed. The Southern Trust was the busiest area ...