"It's the frontline staff as well as the patients that are feeling the pinch on this. It's not just the emergency departments it's right across the health service..." Alliance MLA @PaulaJaneB on the increase in A&E waiting times

Have you or a loved one been a victim of the mess that is the emergency departments in our hospitals? We want to hear from you this morning because the latest Department of Health figures show a massive increase in the number of patients waiting longer than 12 hours in emergency.

Now here's the really shocking figure - in the first three months of this year, the number of people waiting for more than 12 hours increased from three thousand....to NINE and a half THOUSAND. So what is going on and here's another question - is some of it our fault, yes, our fault, the patients, are too many people turning up at emergency with very little wrong with them?