Check out the October issue of WIN magazine. The World of Irish Nursing and Midwifery. 

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 you are aware the HSE has now imposed strict curtailments in respect of recruitment and the filling of posts. They have also issued instructions to the HSE regions that the posts not physically occupied in December 2023 can no longer be considered vacant positions and are cut. No consultation has taken place with healthcare unions on this. When this announcement was made in July all unions objected and raised the issue as a disputed plan, yet there has been no change to the HSE's position despite all health sector unions opposing this and raising concerns for staff safety and by extension ability to provide safe care to patients...