Resignations of senior health chiefs like 'the bad old days returning'

INMO general secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha said the departures from the Sláintecare reform programme has left health workers feeling like the 'bad old days' are returning. Picture: Leah Farrell

The resignation of three senior figures who were attempting to drive reforms of the health service has sparked huge concern among frontline workers, the Irish Nurse and Midwives Organisation has said.

The chairperson of the South/ SouthWest Hospital Group board, Professor Geraldine McCarthy, resigned this week, just days after  Tom Keane, chair of the Sláintecare Implementation Advisory Council and Laura Magahy, executive director of Sláintecare, also quit their posts.