The situation at Antrim Area Hospital improved significantly overnight and there are no ambulances queueing outside this morning, following on from yesterday when 17 ambulances containing patients lined up outside and doctors were treating patients in the car park.
However, the Director of Operations at the Northern Trust, Wendy Magowan, said there are 43 patients in the emergency room waiting to be admitted.
Speaking to RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Ms McGowan said everyone is very concerned about what is to come because healthcare staff are working from such a low base line.
Although all patients are in single rooms and being well looked after, she said, staff are very stretched because they are running the equivalent of two wards while also