Threat of action over bed closures

THE country’s largest nursing union has said it is not ruling out industrial action over the closure of 25 beds at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, which has now gone ahead.

A meeting between the INMO and hospital management, due to take place yesterday, has been put back to today instead.

Noel Treanor, industrial relations officer with the INMO said: “We will be talking to management, and industrial action has not been ruled out.”