INMO members in the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar will protest outside the hospital today (Monday) against understaffing and an excessive workload – which they warn is compromising patient care.

Pressure across the health service continues to grow. Despite government and HSE insistence that the health service is “coping”, the clear message from the frontlines and the INMO is that pressure is excessive, rosters are depleted due to long term absence and inability to secure replacement normally available via an agency- as many agency staff have been recruited to vaccination centres.

Healthcare workers are “deeply offended” by a lack of proposal from the HSE to recognise their efforts in the fight against COVID.

Update on some key COVID updates, along with progress in securing the gains from the Building Momentum agreement which you endorsed earlier this year.

Check out the July/August 2021 issue of WIN magazine. The World of Irish Nursing and Midwifery.

We have written to the HSE today calling for an emergency meeting of the ED task force to deal with increased overcrowding in acute hospitals.