When Liam Doran was a young nurse staying in the nurses’ home at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, the nuns hung a sign on his door saying “Man in the House”.

Health Minister Simon Harris is to draw on a rarely used legal provision to force the HSE to recruit an additional 1,208 nurses and midwives by year end as part of an agreed workforce plan.

Eight out of every 10 student nurses due to qualify this year are considering leaving Ireland to work overseas, a survey shows.

LATEST: Just 29.8% of final year nursing students have been offered contracts by the HSE, a survey by the INMO has found.

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have voted to accept proposals to deal with recruitment and retention issues in the health service.

Nurses are to take industrial action next month after talks with the HSE and Department of Health over

Nurses are also being told to submit statement of concern forms to management in their hospitals.