Staffing crisis

Staffing crisis forces Irish health workers to vote in favour of industrial action

Staffing crisis forces Irish health workers to vote in favour of industrial action

Health workers represented by the trade unions Fórsa and Unite, as well as the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), have voted decisively in favour of industrial action in response to staff shortages in the Health Service Executive (HSE). The unions argue that recruitment restrictions and the suppression of posts in the HSE are creating … Read more

Report warns of urgent need to recruit ambulance staff

The National Ambulance Service (NAS) urgently needs to hire additional employees, according to an unpublished Health Service Executive staffing plan (NAS). The report warns that based on current modelling, compliance with a target to respond within 19 minutes to life-threatening cases other than cardiac or respiratory arrest would be “considerably less than 40 percent” by … Read more