INMO holding conference to brainstorm new health service model

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is launching a consultation process aimed at establishing a new model for the health services.

The INMO's kickstarting the consultation with Ireland's 40,000 nursing professionals at a conference in Dublin today.

The gathering at Croke Park will hear presentations from experts on the future of health care.

"We’re very conscious of the collapse of the Government model in relation to Universal Health Insurance," said INMO director of regulation and social policy Edward Mathews.

"But we are also conscious that we have to have a real conversation within this State regarding the quality of the health service that we want, how much that will cost and how we are going to fund it."