More than 80,000 HSE workers including nurses vote for industrial action
Votes raise the prospect of serious disruption to services early in the new year
Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation
Talks on S39 pay issue highlighted by canvassing encounter end without progress
Issues in long-running dispute brought to national attention by encounter between Charlotte Fallon and Taoiseach
Ireland could agree new deal with Kenya allowing for recruitment of more nurses and midwives
Stephen Donnelly says the deal will be ethical and in line with WHO and OECD guidelines
Nurses say posts in cancer, palliative, paediatric and rehab care being left vacant due to recruitment restrictions
INMO members to commence ballot for industrial action on Monday in protest at employment ceiling introduced in the HSE
HSE focus now on finances rather than patient safety, says nurses’ organisation
Recruitment becoming more difficult, says INMO ahead of lunchtime protests over staff shortages
Health unions to ballot staff on industrial action over HSE staffing levels
rish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and Fórsa among a wider group of unions critical of the limits on recruitment and overall staffing levels
Health service unions mull protests and ballots on industrial action over HSE hiring curbs
More people employed than ever before with substantial growth in recent years, says Health Service Executive
CSO records ‘strong outward flow’ to Australia with 10,600 people moving there from Ireland
Latest data reveal the highest level of emigration down under from the Republic of Ireland since 2013, with numbers returning decreasing
Senior public-health nurse managers in west signal intention to take industrial action
Action being taken because HSE has failed to implement recommendations intended to address issues involved, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says
HSE staffing strategy will see 2,000 posts abolished and affect patient safety, unions say
Health service chief recently told senior managers staffing ‘now at a level not previously seen and continues to grow’
Despite HSE claims of record staff numbers, unions say hospital levels are insufficient
Management says nearly 25,000 more health workers than in 2019 but unions argue posts vacant at the end of last year have effectively been suppressed
HSE spends €4.2bn on outside agency staff since 2013
Agencies making millions at cost of poor workforce planning, says nurses union representative
Healthcare recruitment freeze impacting on patient care, Stephen Donnelly admits
Minister for Health denied the timing of the announcement on Thursday of a new assessment of emergency department services in the midwest was an election stunt
Ireland has second highest number of nurses after Finland, Tánaiste says
Martin dismisses ‘so-called recruitment embargo’, says needs to be a focus on ‘deployment and outcomes’
INMO members reject proposal on postnatal assessments amid stark divisions on issue
Motion defeated following lengthy debate marked by stark divisions of opinion at INMO conference at Croke Park
Irish healthcare workers will help rebuild Gaza’s medical services, INMO conference told
Palestinian ambassador to Ireland describes impact of Israel’s ‘vicious war’ on region’s healthcare system
Budgets being put ahead of patient safety by Government, claims INMO
Nurses’ union’s annual conference at Croke Park in Dublin hears HSE recruitment embargo affecting safe staffing levels
More than a fifth of nurses and midwives have seen doctor for work-related stress - INMO
Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation survey finds more than half experience pressure to work additional hours because of staffing levels
Coalition leaders to intervene in ‘standoff’ between HSE and department
HSE will not agree to make appointments to many replacement positions until Minister authorizes figure for the total number it can have on the payroll following criticism of recruitment levels for last year
University Hospital Limerick: Overcrowding persists on morning after team appointed to tackle ED pressures
INMO says 102 patients were on trolleys and in wards awaiting beds on Wednesday, although this was down 21 on the previous morning
More than 4,000 nurses assaulted in little over a year, says INMO
Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation releases ‘conservative’ figures to coincide with Workers’ Memorial Day
Assessment conducted after death of girl (16) in University Hospital Limerick
Death follows the case of Aoife Johnston (16), who died at the hospital in December 2022
‘Unacceptable and dangerous’: Limerick hospital sets overcrowding record with 150 waiting for beds
Nursing union says persistent overcrowding damaging morale of staff trying to provide safe care in ‘an extremely trying environment’
Nearly 13,000 extra nurses will be needed by 2041 to meet ‘changed demographics’
To get the required number of nurses and midwives ‘there must be a laser-like focus on recruitment and retention measures’, INMO says
Unions for voluntary sector carers to assess implications of public sector pay deal
Majority of employees covered by agreement reached in October to avert strike action have not yet received promised pay increases
Public sector workers to get pay rise of 10.25% over 2½ years under €3.6bn deal
First salary increase to take effect his month with those on lowest incomes set to receive up to 17.3 per cent by 2027, says Donohoe
After the crash: Public sector workers still feeling pinch of emergency changes to pay and conditions
Pay and hours have been restored in most cases - but for some teachers, nurses and others, the status quo never returned
Strikes over public pay remain likely if agreement not quickly reached in talks, says INMO
General secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha told conference ongoing delays represent ‘a gamble’ with workers frustrated by failure to reach deal
‘Mundane, repetitive tasks’ should be performed by nurses, not junior doctors, says Medical Council
Medical Council says 2016 deal to transfer common tasks to nurses has not been implemented
‘Real pity’ unions rejected public sector pay offer of 8.5% rise over two years, Donohoe says
Forsa union chief Kevin Callinan says opening offer from Government side was ‘extremely disappointing’
Pay talks: Where do the two sides stand and what will the Government offer?
Agreement on several issues is generally regarded as being within striking distance but ‘nothing is agreed until everything is agreed’
Only six a day on trolleys at Limerick ED, Donnelly says, in contrast with INMO numbers
Nurses’ ‘trolley watch’ numbers suggest 42 people were awaiting admission as organisation counts differently to HSE
Flu cases more than double as Covid-19 infections surge, latest HSE figures show
Exact prevalence of Covid not known as only limited testing carried out but flu levels remain well below those recorded this time last year
Nurses’ union says 2023 is worst year on record for hospital overcrowding
So far this year 121,526 patients have been admitted to hospital without a bed, says INMO
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