A former health service chief has warned that Northern Ireland's health system faces a "very difficult six to eight weeks ahead".
John Compton, a former chief executive of the health and social care board, says there's very little that can be done to fix the health service here this winter as extreme pressures are set to continue
He was speaking a day after health chiefs revealed that a patient waited four and a half days for treatment at an emergency department in a Northern Ireland hospital.
