Waits of more than 12 hours in Northern Ireland's emergency departments have risen by 49%.
Meanwhile people have been asked to support timely discharge from hospitals in order to help deal with "severe and ongoing pressures".It said all hospitals were working beyond capacity - with many very ill patients waiting for hospital beds.
The health and social care sector has urgently appealed to patients and families to help free up beds. This can be done in several ways - including ensuring there are arrangements in place to be picked up promptly on the day of discharge once medically fit or by accepting an allocated care home placement.
These include workforce shortages and increasing expenditure, although hospital waiting times were worse in Northern Ireland. Health Minister Robin Swann has previously said the size of Northern Ireland's hospital waiting lists is
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