The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has still secured no solutions to the issue of childcare for health workers.

The recruitment embargo on nurses and midwives has been lifted.

The head of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has said that declaring a major incident at Ireland’s worst-hit hospitals is essential in order to “de-escalate” a situation which saw record trolley numbers recorded for two days running.

There are more than 600 people waiting to be admitted to hospitals around the country today.

The number of patients awaiting hospital beds has stayed above 550 for the second day in a row.

University Hospital Limerick is the worst affected with 60 people awaiting beds.

It will be “impossible” to staff any additional beds included in the HSE's Winter Plan because of the “recruitment pause”, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has warned.

University Hospital Limerick is the worst affected.

There are more than 550 patients waiting for beds in hospitals around the country today.

Ireland's nurses and midwives are warning that Ireland will lose more young nurses to British hospitals after Brexit.

More than 500 people are waiting for hospital beds around the country this morning.

There have been 279 assaults in HSE hospitals in 2019 so far, according to new figures released to Sinn Féin TD Louise O’Reilly in a parliamentary question.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has recommended that the HSE pay a public health nurse €10,000 for the way it handled a formal complaint against the nurse by the father of a disabled girl.

Marriage proposals from men seeking good wives; butter, milk and potatoes as part payment of wages - such are the anecdotes that populate the pages of a new social history documenting the colourful history of the country's first nurses' trade union.

Publishing details of every nurse sanctioned by their regulatory body could lead some to take their own lives or consider doing so, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).

Over 350 nurses and midwives are meeting for the INMO’s Annual Delegate Conference today in Trim, Co Meath.

Three in five nurses have voted to accept Labour Court proposals aimed at resolving a dispute that triggered three days of strike action earlier this year.

Up to 440 patients are waiting on trolleys at hospitals nationwide today.

Chronic overcrowding continued across the country’s hospitals as 531 admitted patients languished on trolleys in emergency departments and wards today.

The INMO has recommended that their members accept proposals aimed at resolving their recent strike.

Evelyn Ring Post-natal care for mothers in the country’s maternity hospitals is not up to standard because of staff shortages, a maternity care expert has said .

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has welcomed a new funding, staffing and policy package for Ireland's nurse-led Sexual Assault Treatment Units (SATUs).

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has said it is "deeply disappointed" following a meeting with University Hospital Limerick (UHL) management where it was confirmed the 17-bed-ward would close tomorrow.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is poised to take further strike action if they are unhappy with the Labour Court’s imminent recommendation on a draft contract for nurses and midwives.

There are 580 patients waiting for beds in hospitals around the country this morning, according to the INMO Trolley Watch.

As talks at the Labour Court over nurses' pay and conditions adjourned until next week the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation warns that it has only suspended its strike action, not called it off.

INMO general secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha says that the INMO is “all for change” and the introduction of Sláintecare, but that the contract offered by the Government was “inadequate” and far from what the Labour Court had recommended.

The number of patients waiting for hospital beds around the country has risen above 500.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) is recommending that its members accept a pay deal aimed at preventing further strikes.