Nurses complained about training courses

CLINICAL nurse managers had complained to the HSE about being forced to attend PPARS training courses when hospital staffing levels were at critical levels, it was revealed yesterday.

The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) has described such moves as being “indicative of the obsession with PPARS” within the HSE.

They also said nurse and doctor training rooms in the HSE Southern Area were taken over by the PPARS team without consultation with medical staff, who were left without premises.