Only one hospital in country has paid frontline staff €1k pandemic bonus 

HSE hospitals will be among the first to pay staff the €1,000 tax-free bonus, but voluntary hospitals have to wait to receive the money from the HSE. File picture: PA

Beaumont Hospital in Dublin is the only hospital in the country to date to have paid frontline healthcare staff their €1,000 pandemic bonus, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).

Some frontline staff will receive the payment in the middle of this month but the majority of hospitals who pay monthly will give the bonus to nurses and midwives at the end of the month, according to senior INMO sources.