It’s emerged that the INMO is to ballot members who work in the public health service in the north west.
The organisation say that large gaps in the nursing and midwifery workforce are impacting the ability of its members to provide safe care.
Due to the HSE recruitment embargo, many nursing posts in cancer, palliative, paediatric, and rehab care are being left vacant,
A spokesperson for the INMO said the freeze is having a “detrimental impact on the provision of care. What we are seeing is a postcode lottery when it comes to vital start-of-life and end-of-life care, the removal of vital nursing and midwifery posts will only exacerbate this.”