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‘Heartbreaking that we cannot do what we were trained to,’ delegate tells INMO conference
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Trade union general secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha calls on Government and HSE to ‘put safety first’
Frontline health workers who developed Long Covid set to have full sick pay restored amid case reviews
Special Leave Scheme which kept the staff, mainly nurses, on full pay had been discontinued at end of last year
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Healthcare workers with Long Covid feel ‘abandoned’ as special payment ends
More than 120 staff were receiving financial support intended to cover pay before it was discontinued last December
Nurses suspend industrial action at Naas General Hospital following intense talks
INMO members had been engaged in work-to-rule since Monday over ‘unsafe’ staffing levels
More than 11 nurses and midwives assaulted daily, union conference told
Nurses call for more security and CCTV amid rise in assaults and abuse
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Analysis: Patients will be the real winners says HSE chief as threat to service disruption this week is lifted
HSE and unions to meet again on Saturday after WRC talks fail to produce agreement
Unless compromise can be reached, 80,000 healthcare workers will begin work-to-rule on Monday
Nurses in North join call for emergency plan to tackle ED overcrowding
Director of Royal College of Nursing (NI) believes Northern Ireland faring ‘slightly worse’ than Republic
HSE focus now on finances rather than patient safety, says nurses’ organisation
Recruitment becoming more difficult, says INMO ahead of lunchtime protests over staff shortages
Despite HSE claims of record staff numbers, unions say hospital levels are insufficient
Management says nearly 25,000 more health workers than in 2019 but unions argue posts vacant at the end of last year have effectively been suppressed
Budgets being put ahead of patient safety by Government, claims INMO
Nurses’ union’s annual conference at Croke Park in Dublin hears HSE recruitment embargo affecting safe staffing levels
Unions call for prompt payment of public sector pay increases after deal is ratified
Ballots at State’s biggest unions record margins of more than 90 per cent in favour
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