Hundreds of nurses will today voice their concerns about the state of the health service.

Nurses and midwives across Ireland have been banned by their unions from working any overtime, it emerged tonight.

Health Service Executive managers are not interested in massive reform of patient care, nurses representatives claimed today.

AS NURSES announced the 52 hospitals and mental health services to be hit by work stoppages next week, the HSE warned of cancellations in elective surgery and disruptions in in-patient services as the authority concentrated on providing emergency and critical care.

AS nurses plan one-hour stoppages at 50 hospital and mental health facilities next week a Fianna Fáil backbencher has warned that their dispute would cost the Government seats in the General Election.

Nurses will begin work stoppages in three hospitals in Dublin and Tipperary this Wednesday in their bid to get better pay and working conditions.

NURSES have given the Government three weeks to meet their demands on increased pay and a shorter working week or face strike action in the run-up to the general election.

A BID by Health Minister Mary Harney to stop a work-to-rule by nurses later this month does not go far enough, the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) said yesterday.

Members of the two largest nurses unions have threatened strike action unless their demands for a pay rise and a 35-hour working week are met.

NEW admission lounges for patients waiting for a hospital bed will not see the light of day unless additional in-patient nurses are appointed, the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) warned yesterday.

The Irish Nurses Organisation has reported a new record number of people waiting on trolleys in A&E units across the country today.

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.

A YOUNG man with a suspected brain illness, who spent five days in A&E waiting for a scan, eventually fled the hospital fearing conditions there were making him feel worse.

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The Irish Nurses Organisation has said plans to refer patients from Cavan General Hospital to Drogheda Hospital for surgery are unrealistic and unworkable.

HUNDREDS of nurses and midwives are leaving the health service because they are burnt out, a study shows.

NURSES’ representatives are forecasting severe overcrowding problems at accident and emergency units will be exacerbated by bonfire-related injuries over the Hallowe’en weekend.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin has promised a 10-day stay on the closure of hospital beds in an effort to appease angry healthcare unions.

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin has rejected claims by the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) that he deliberately massaged bed closure figures.

NURSES representatives have pointed the finger of blame at consultants for the latest A&E crisis to grip the country's major hospitals.

Today’s order of play at Wimbledon

The Labour Relations Commission is intervening in the nurses' dispute over working conditions in Accident and Emergency Units.