THE effects of the HSE’s recruitment freeze are likely to be felt well into next year with ward closures, longer waiting lists and more hospital patients on trollies, according to a leading nurse manager.

THE author of a report reviewing 105 deaths at a nursing home has questioned the lack of progress in introducing an internationally recognised method for analysing the health needs of older people.

OMBUDSMAN Emily O’Reilly has described as “disturbing” a recent study that highlighted the lack of consultation with a patient’s family when deciding whether or not to attempt resuscitation.

MEMBERS of the Accident & Emergency task force were forbidden from raising the question of using more acute hospital beds to relieve overcrowding in casualty, it has been claimed.

SENIOR nurses have called for the lifting of the cap on nursing staff imposed by the Government almost two years ago and only adjusted minimally since.

The Department of Finance has been urged to lift a two-year-old cap on the number of staff that can be hired by hospitals in Ireland.

MAJOR improvements are needed in the healthcare facilities available to over 1,000 unaccompanied child asylum-seekers living in Ireland, a nursing expert said yesterday.

DISGRUNTLED nurses at a hospital for the elderly are refusing to make beds, carry out portering duties and other non-nursing tasks in a dispute over staffing levels.