HSE cuts ‘force nurses into mistakes’

Nurses are being forced into making mistakes because of HSE cuts, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has claimed.

INMO vice-president Geraldine Talty warned the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children that the HSE’s latest cutting plan had gone too far.

“This plan is going to cost money; it is going to cost lives; and its going to cost nurses their registrations because they are being forced into making mistakes,” she warned.