Following an emergency meeting, the Executive Council of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has sanctioned the beginning of a consultation with nurses on a campaign of industrial action.

Your Executive Council met in emergency session today to discuss the inadequacy of the response by the HSE to the current out and out crisis you are working through in overcrowded emergency departments, overcrowded corridors and wards.

According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, 838 patients are on a trolley in Irish hospitals today. No hospital is unaffected by overcrowding today with patients on trolleys or chairs in emergency departments or elsewhere in each of our hospitals.

According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, 838 patients are on a trolley in Irish hospitals today.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have recorded that 11,842 patients were admitted to hospital without a bed in December. 

The INMO have called on the HSE to do everything necessary to protect the physical and mental wellbeing of nurses and midwives.