Dr. Colm Henry:

Very briefly and in answer to the Senator's earlier question, there is a system in place now in UL and other emergency departments where patients are tracked for their deterioration. If they come in apparently stable, there is a system called the Irish national early warning system, INEWS, which trackers their clinical condition in a structured way with nursing corresponding to the need to do that. It tracks deterioration, whether expected or unexpected, and that can lead to a change in the triage category that Dr. McNamara described.

It is not the case, no matter how busy the department is, that patients are not tracked for deterioration.