A leading medic has said someone needs to take charge of Northern Ireland’s health service in the absence of an Executive at Stormont.
Dr Paul Kerr from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine was speaking as Antrim Area Hospital remained under extreme pressure on Monday after being forced to close its doors to new admissions over the weekend because conditions had become unsafe.
On Saturday night, the hospital declared a major incident and issued a statement asking people to “not attend under any circumstances” after it had reached full capacity due to the number of patients needing to be admitted.
