It has been a busy week for the INMO between lobbying successfully for the vaccine booster to be provided to nurses and midwives and our extremely well-attended demonstration outside of Dáil Éireann for our student nurses and midwives. 

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called for the Government and HSE to publish the long-awaited winter plan for the health service. 

Following today’s student nurses and midwives demonstration the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called on the Minister for Health to provide an independent report to the INMO on behalf of student nurses and midwives which considered their claims for full restoration of previous pay cuts for those in their internship year and improved conditions for those on clinical placement.

Check out the November 2021 issue of WIN magazine. The World of Irish Nursing and Midwifery.

The monthly Trolleywatch figures compiled by the Irish Nurses and Midwives organisation show that numbers of patients on trolleys have almost doubled this October when compared to the same time period in 2020.  

A week has passed since I wrote to the Chief Medical Officer and the Chairperson of the National Immunisation Advisory Council asking them to recommend that nurses, midwives, and other patient-facing healthcare workers receive their booster vaccine as a matter of priority