Siptu has welcomed the intervention of the National Implementation Body, in addressing the issues of pay and conditions for Nurses.

The opening of the country's largest maternity hospital could be delayed because of problems with staffing levels.

DOESN'T time fly? Not so long ago, the A&E issue was hardly a little crisis in Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney's eye. A year and a half later, it has grown up to become a fully-blown national emergency.

ALMOST 500 people are set to protest on Good Friday over the high number of people on trolleys in hospital A&E departments.

MUNSTER’S newest accident and emergency unit is close to breaking point, nurses claimed last night.

NURSES are planning to flood the office of Health Minister Mary Harney with thousands of postcards from people angry at conditions in hospital A&E units throughout the country.

The Irish Nurses' Organisation (INO) has claimed that the country could be bereft of Irish nurses in 10 years' time, if current staffing policies continue.

IT is unethical, unprofessional and dangerous to accept nurse/patient ratios that prevent nurses from providing safe care, the Irish Nurses' Organisation (INO) has claimed.

ONE THOUSAND more patients were treated on trolleys in Cork University Hospital's A&E department last year than in 2003.

Most of the country's health boards have yet to appoint case officers to deal with the 20,000 elderly people believed to be victims of abuse, writes Pat Brosnan.

The Irish Nurses' Organisation (INO) has blamed a shortage of midwives in the health service for the looming crisis in Irish maternity hospitals.

AN RTÉ newsreader, at the races and well tore into the bargain, suddenly remembered he was due in studio 20 minutes later to read the 6.30pm news.

Elderly people in care who become the victims of abuse are being encouraged to speak out by the Irish Nurses' Organisation.

A WORLDWIDE nursing federation has backed criticism of Government-sponsored overseas' recruitment campaigns which poach staff from developing countries.

New hospital wards are being built across the country, only to stay idle because of a lack of funding to staff them, writes Paul O'Brien.

A REPORT from Britain will influence if nurses here are trained to carry out forensic examinations on sexual assault victims.

The Irish Nurses' Organisation has threatened to go to the Labour Court unless the North Eastern Health Board reverses its decision to cut consultant surgery hours at Louth County Hospital.

A consultant at Ireland's largest acute care hospital, St James’ in Dublin, has accused management of trying to cover up its chronic overcrowding problems.

The Irish Patients' Association said today that it supports the Irish Nurses' Organisation’s call for additional nurses.

HEALTH board staff cuts will leave some families reliant on respite care without any home help later this month.

PREGNANT women and babies are being put at risk because services at the country’s largest maternity hospital are so overstretched.

Union representatives will meet with Minister for Health Michael Martin later today to discuss continued cutbacks in the health service.

Nurses will issue a work-to-rule this Friday at Naas General Hospital in Co Kildare.

The Labour Relations Commission has convened an emergency meeting in an effort to avoid a nurses' strike due to overcrowding in accident and emergency departments in the eastern region.

Nurses in a Dublin hospital are to begin a work to rule later today.

Nurses at Bantry General Hospital in Co Cork are set to launch strike action tomorrow following the collapse of talks with hospital management today.

The Irish Nurses' Organisation dispute in three Mid-Western hospitals looks set to escalate.

The Irish Nurses' Organisation is continuing its industrial action in three mid-western hospitals today.

Nurses at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick have returned to work after a planned one hour work-stoppage.

Management at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin have agreed to attend further conciliation talks chaired by the Labour Relations Commission today.

Industrial strife in the health service is escalating with nurses at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin voting for possible strike action.

Despite last-minute appeals, nurses in Accident and Emergency units are to stop work for two hours from midday and are also implementing a work-to-rule.

More than 200 nurses in Mullingar have begun a work-to-rule industrial action in a row over overcrowding at the Midland Regional General Hospital.