INMO raises staffing and safety concerns in Cork hospitals The INMO has stated the situation in Cork University Hospital and Cork University Maternity Hospital is highly dangerous, noting significant frontline nursing and midwifery vacancies in the hospitals that are not being filled.
617 patients on trolleys following bank holiday weekend - INMO 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.
July like no other in health service - exceptional measures needed in UHL 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.