The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) remains locked in talks to secure meaningful strategies to address staffing, recruitment, and retention problems plaguing the country’s nursing and midwifery workforce.
A campaign to stimulate action kicked oft in late January and led to intensive discussions at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) with a range of stakeholders including the Department of Health, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Health Service Executive (HSE).
It also involved the Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU).
Initial talks revealed health service management had no workforce plan to address ongoing unsafe staffing levels that are compromising patient care and negatively impacting upon the health and safety of nurses and midwives..
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