Press releases

Senior nurse and midwifery managers (Directors of Nursing/Midwifery and Assistant Directors of Nursing/Midwifery) and their linked grades (Advanced Nurse/Midwife Practitioners and Nurse/Midwife Tutors) will begin industrial action in the form of a work-to-rule over the non-implementation of proposals to modernise pay and grading structures on September 29th.

Over 692 patients are without a bed in Irish hospitals today according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

The INMO welcomes a review into hospital car parking charges following reports of 140% increase in hospital parking revenue.

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

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have voted in favour of industrial action, following a six-week in-person ballot regarding the need for Government to meaningfully provide for acceptable pay increases in any further public sector pay agreement