INMO: Health service is ‘under unbearable pressures’

IRELAND’S health service is ‘under unbearable pressures’, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has warned ahead of a conference in Dublin today on safe practice and protecting patient care.

Speakers will include representatives from the Mid-Staffordshire National Health Service Foundation Trust who will discuss how things went terribly wrong when budgets took priority over patients.

INMO general secretary Liam Doran said the experience of Mid-Staffordshire must be heard by the Minister for Health, his Government and senior management at the Health Service Executive (HSE).