Disruption to hospitals in north west could continue today
The HSE is warning of potential disruption to services in hospitals in Sligo and Letterkenny once they get back up and running later. Industrial action by nurses ends at 8am, but the HSE says there could be a surge in patients presenting at emergency departments. INMO members will stage a…
Staffing a key issue for striking nurses
More than 3,000 nurses throughout Sligo, Leitirm and Donegal are continuing their protest action this afternoon. The first all-out strike by the INMO since 1999 is the latest in an ongoing campaign for improved staffing levels, pay and conditions. Despite the first heavy overnight snow and frost this winter, nurses…
North West nurses leader hopeful of ‘meaningful discussions’ in bid to avert strike
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation will sit down for talks with the HSE today to try and avert strike action which will affect hospitals and nursing units across the north west. The talks at the Workplace Relations Commission, are aimed at averting planned strike action – the first of…
Call for nurses’ dispute to be dealt with in the same way as that of gardai
A Sligo/Leitrim TD is calling for nurses’ demands for improved pay and conditions to be dealt with in the same way as that of the gardai. A special deal was reached with gardai last year in a move that averted threatened industrial action. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has…
Nurses & midwives vote to take strike action
Nurses and midwives across the north west have voted to go on strike over staff shortages and pay. Around 2,200 nurses and midwives across counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal have been casting their votes over the last month. Nationally 95% of members balloted were in favour industrial action. INMO North…
Irish Nurses to HSE: ‘If you want nurses – pay them’
Irish nurses will today tell the HSE that if you want to recruit and retain nurses – you need to pay them. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation are holding a symposium in Dublin later to discuss the problem of understaffing in the health service and the resulting overcrowding in…
Nurses say HSE failing to provide for another winter crisis in hospitals
With record numbers on trolleys again today, nurses in Galway are protesting over what they claim is the HSE’s failure year on year to tackle another patient winter crisis. In Sligo alone there are 27 patients on trolleys with another 16 waiting at Letterkenny University Hospital. Nurses and midwives based…