Few health boards at fair to woo nurses

ONLY three of the country’s 10 health boards are represented at a major nursing recruitment fair in Dublin, at a time when hospitals are recruiting nurses from abroad to ease staffing shortages.

The Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA), which has the Northern, East Coast and South Western Area health boards under its wing, found that packages offered by hospitals in Britain and the US were hard to beat.

More than 1,000 student and qualified nurses are expected to attend the two-day recruitment exhibition in the RDS with hundreds availing of the free bus service laid on by the organisers Irish Nurse Magazine.