Nurses warn of 'triple threat' of understaffing, a winter surge and Covid-19 to health service

INMO General Secretary, Phil Ní Sheaghdha, said: “We have already seen trolley figures steadily increase - this will only worsen as winter bites."

The HSE has failed to agree a plan with nurses to staff the health service this winter, the INMO claimed today.

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation's Executive Council are now warning that the continued cooperation over winter should not be “taken for granted”, saying the health service faces a “triple threat” of understaffing, a winter surge and Covid-19.