The INMO has called on the Health Service Executive to offer to graduate nurses and midwives permanent jobs in the HSE West and North-West Region.

Management in hospitals where overcrowding is particularly worrying must now make it their focus to de-escalate the number of patients being admitted on trolleys. The aim must be to reduce the number of patients being treated on trolleys across the hospital

 INMO members working in the public health service were balloted throughout the month of August regarding the cost-of-living pressures nurses and midwives are under.