Unions seek HSE talks over bed cuts

FOLLOWING a meeting of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) and SIPTU member nurses at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital yesterday, the unions have sought a meeting with HSE management tomorrow to discuss the decision to close 25 beds at the hospital.

Nurses are furious at what they said was a unilateral decision this week by the HSE taken without any consultation.

Noel Treanor, industrial relations officer with the INMO, said: “We had a very large and vocal attendance at the meeting and there is a lot of anger.