HSE recruitment freeze placing nurses in 'high-risk scenarios', say INMO

INMO General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha, said: "The recruitment moratorium must be reversed urgently.” File picture: Andy Gibson

The HSE's recruitment moratorium will have detrimental outcomes on patient care in the long term and should be "reversed urgently", the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has (INMO) has said.

The INMO says its members are facing "very high-risk scenarios" with their working environments now posing "real and present risks to their ability to provide timely and safe care to patients which in turn exposes them to potential regulatory inquiries and unsafe working conditions."