Health service – care package concerns see patients delayed from getting out of hospital

There's been a lot of talk about our health service this week, with Health Minister Michelle O'Neill revealing her plan to tackle waiting lists. Well rather than patients waiting to get into hospital, we have been looking into others who have been delayed getting out after being treated. In December there were nearly 300 people still in hospital beds who were deemed medically fit to go home. But - care packages could not be put in place in order to discharge them. We've been working on this story since December, when our reporter Nicola Weir, spoke to Margaret Gibson and Wilma McMillan - both struggling to secure care packages in order to bring their family members home. Vinny has been speaking to Assistant Director of Social Service - Adult Services, Kevin Keenan, about the figures. He put it to him that they didn't make great reading.