Nurses begin work-to-rule over clerical cover

OUR Lady’s Hospital in Navan, Co Meath, has become the latest medical centre to be hit by a nursing dispute.

It brings to nine the total number of hospitals around the country at which members of the Irish Nurses Organisation have been engaged in industrial action in recent weeks over pay and conditions, including rostering, on-call fees, non-nursing duties and staffing levels.

Nursing staff at Our Lady’s in Navan began a work-to-rule yesterday morning to highlight their concerns over inadequate clerical cover at the hospital’s accident and emergency department.