Ballot on plan to end staffing dispute at Cork University Hospital

Cancer nurses at Cork University Hospital (CUH) have begun balloting on proposals designed to end a dispute over staffing levels on the oncology ward.

The proposals, hammered out this week at the Labour Relations Commission, have been recommended for acceptance by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), as a “first step” for the unit to emerge from the “restrictions” of the long-standing staff moratorium.

The union had sought a staffing review “to address the major advancements in clinical treatment regimes” since the ward opened nine years ago, and this is addressed in the proposals.