Nurses: Patient care at risk under HSE spending plan

Nurses fear the HSE’s spending plan poses a “high risk” to the safe delivery of patient care.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is worried that just 13 of the additional 1,224 nursing and midwifery posts have been confirmed this year.

There are 3,000 fewer nurses and midwives at work today than there were in 2007 and nurse recruitment and retention problems are mainly to blame.