Nurses cease work to rule

A WORK-to-rule by nurses at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital has been called off, the INMO (Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation) and SIPTU confirmed.

The work-to-rule, continuing for the past two months, resulted in a decision by hospital management to transfer emergency patients to wards when the emergency department was overcrowded.

Both unions yesterday wrote to management at the hospital telling him their actions were now ceasing.