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

 INMO members working in the public health service were balloted throughout the month of August regarding the cost-of-living pressures nurses and midwives are under.

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