Senior Personal Assistant/Administrative Officer. INMO Galway Regional Office (Grade V – 1 x Year Fixed Term Contract).

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has urged the Health Service Executive to get a handle on a ‘summer trolley crisis’. This comes as over 617 patients are without a bed in Irish hospitals this morning.

10,394 patients were treated on a trolley or in an inappropriate space in July, according to the INMO. The union states that this is the first July on record that trolley figures have exceeded 10,000. 

Following negotiations under the auspices of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), an agreement has been reached regarding the safe staffing of Killarney Community Nursing Unit, enabling the unit to open safely on a phased basis from August 10th.

The INMO intends to ballot all its members in the public service in response to the government’s inaction in relation to the cost-of-living crisis.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives has announced that it will ballot its members for industrial action, up to and including strike action, following the Government’s failure to establish a clear basis for negotiations on a new public sector pay agreement...