Nurses hit out over health funding

THE lack of adequate funds for the health service will continue to compromise standards of care, the country's largest nursing union warned last night.

As a fresh row broke out over hospital waiting lists, Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) president Ann Martin said that 100 beds remained closed in the greater Dublin area and in new units around the country due to a lack of funding.

The INO's conference starts today in Killarney and is set to focus on the effect that the shortage of nurses and midwives is having.