Press releases

INMO members are holding a protest at St Luke’s Hospital Kilkenny at lunchtime today, alongside colleagues in Fórsa and SIPTU trade unions, to protest the implementation of the HSE’s recent Pay and Numbers Strategy.

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

576 patients are being treated on a trolley or chair today according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation

Over 9,635 patients have been treated in hospital without a bed this September according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have today announced that they intend to ballot their members over the HSE’s recruitment moratorium and the impact it is having on staffing across the public health service.

As hostilities in Gaza continue, the neighbouring West Bank has also faced a surge in violence over the past month. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), around 73,000 women in the West Bank are currently pregnant, with more than 8,000 expected to give birth in the coming month as the violence threatens to spill over further. With hospitals overwhelmed and roads blocked by checkpoints, providing safe care has become nearly impossible....