The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has welcomed the publication of the ‘Acute Mental Healthcare in Hospital Emergency Departments in Ireland’ report carried out by the Mental Health Commission.

Members will be balloted on WRC proposals relating to the INMO claim for measures to address the non-filling, and delayed filling, of vacant and suppressed posts and the associated and increasingly unsafe staffing levels in nursing and midwifery.

Check out the April 2025 issue of WIN magazine. The World of Irish Nursing and Midwifery. 

Your Executive Council have taken the decision to suspend the work-to-rule that was due to begin on Monday 31st March to allow a ballot of members to take place on the proposals. We will now be organising workplace meetings to give you more information. 

The INMO alongside Fórsa, Connect, MLSA and Unite trade unions attended a conciliation conference with the HSE in the Workplace Relations Commission yesterday (Thursday).

The HSE had invited us to meet with them on Monday morning  to discuss the substantive issues of the notified dispute. As you are aware, the issues you were balloted on were in respect of staffing and the process by which staffing levels are arrived at...