INMO issues warning over staff shortages at Sligo and Letterkenny Hospitals
Urgent warnings have been issued that under staffing of certain services must be curtailed for safety in many of the Saolta University Healthcare Group hospitals including Sligo and Letterkenny University Hospitals. The warnings have been issued by officials from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation who claims Saolta management should…
Labour Court hearing into nurses’ dispute
A Labour Court hearing into the ongoing nurses dispute is taking place today. Government officials and nursing unions are presenting their views on the pay and staffing dispute, before the court returns with a recommendation later this week. Strike action by 40,000 nurses was called off last month after the…
Nurses strike: No end in sight at present
More than 3,000 nurses across the north west are now five hours into their third 24-hour strike day. They are picketing outside Sligo and Letterkenny University hospitals as well as other HSE facilities throughout the region. Among those on the picket line in Sligo is the president of the INMO,…
Nurses begin third day of strike action
Nurses throughout Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal are on the picket line again this morning in what is their third national 24-hour strike day. They will be outside Sligo and Letterkenny University hospitals as well as other HSE facilities. Day three of the nurses strike got underway at 8am, and once…
Striking nurses say they have tried every other avenue in effort to resolve dispute
Nurses on the picket line outside hospitals and HSE facilities across the region today have vowed to continue their campaign for as long as it takes to obtain what want in relation to pay, conditions and staff retention. On what was a drizzly morning outside Sligo University Hospital, INMO members…
Public warned to avoid ED at Sligo University Hospital tomorrow
A consultant in emergency medicine is advising people not to attend the Emergency Department at Sligo University Hospital tomorrow unless they have a life threatening condition. Over 3000 members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation across the north west are to go on strike again tomorrow over pay and…
PNA could extend industrial action to North West
Industrial action by members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association could be escalated to include health facilities across the north west region next week. There are currently 120 members of the PNA working in hospitals and facilities in Sligo, Leitrim and South Donegal. Over 6-thousand members of the association in certain…