Member updates

This week has continued with extreme pressure on all our members across all parts of Ireland’s health service, please find below some key updates

Last July you the members of the INMO sounded the alarm that overcrowding in our hospitals was going to be a major concern this winter. 

It has been a busy week for the INMO between lobbying successfully for the vaccine booster to be provided to nurses and midwives and our extremely well-attended demonstration outside of Dáil Éireann for our student nurses and midwives. 

A week has passed since I wrote to the Chief Medical Officer and the Chairperson of the National Immunisation Advisory Council asking them to recommend that nurses, midwives, and other patient-facing healthcare workers receive their booster vaccine as a matter of priority

The decision by Government not to extend the COVID-19 booster vaccine programme to healthcare workers at this time is wrong. 

Pressure across our health service is continuing to grow. We are seeing pre-pandemic numbers of patients on trolleys this week.