Healthcare crisis looms as nurses’ anger grows

A HEALTHCARE crisis is imminent with nursing disputes underway in nine hospitals across the country, the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) warned yesterday.

Industrial action, which centres primarily on inadequate nurse staffing levels and on-call remuneration, is set to escalate with the INO preparing ballots at several other hospitals.

The INO said work-to-rule and other protest actions would impact severely on waiting lists and pre-planned operations.