INMO Conference: Emigrant nurses will only return ‘if they feel valued’

Thousands of nurses and nursing graduates will not return to this country unless the profession is respected and properly rewarded.

The claim was made at the annual Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation delegates conference where restoration of pay and improved working conditions topped the agenda.

Frustration at €3.6bn worth of cuts in the service was to the fore as nurses warned that their work had turned from “patient-centred care” to “ticking boxes and meeting targets”.