Unions At MWRH, Limerick Suspend Industrial Action For 4 Week Period

Following 12 hours of talks on Tuesday under the Chairmanship of Kevin Foley, Director of Conciliation at the Labour Relations Commission, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and SIPTU have agreed to suspend all industrial action at the Mid Western Regional Hospital for a four week period to allow for: Full review of rosters and resources […]

Limerick Nurses To Protest In Dublin Tomorrow, October 12th

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and SIPTU will take their campaign for patient safety at the Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick to Dublin tomorrow, October 12th.  Nurses are engaged in a campaign of action aimed at highlighting the unacceptable clinical risk, and their grave concern for patient care, which continues on a […]

Nursing Unions demand release of report into conditions at Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick

SIPTU and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation are calling upon the Minister for Health, James Reilly, to immediately publish a report by the HSE Special Delivery Unit (SDU) into the unacceptable conditions currently endured by patients in the Emergency Department of the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick. SIPTU Health Division Organiser, Paul Bell, said; “It […]

Action By INMO Members For Safe Care To Continue In Limerick

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation are to undertake a third 4 hour work stoppage at the Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick on next Tuesday, October 4th, between 8.30a.m.and 12.30 p.m. This action is in pursuit of improved patient safety measures which have been compromised by: Increased demands at the hospital for surgical, […]

Further Work Stoppages By Nurses In Limerick Tomorrow – September 28

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation in the ED, Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick will hold a further 4 hour work stoppage tomorrow Wednesday 28th September between 8. 30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. This is due to the inability to date of the Minister for Health and the HSE to address the patient […]

INMO Members at the Emergency Department in the Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick to hold 2nd Work Stoppage on September 28TH

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation at the Emergency Department of the Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick will hold a 2nd work stoppage  on Wednesday next, September 28th, 2011 from 8.30a.m. – 12.30p.m.  This action is a further attempt to get the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly and his Department to address […]

Members Of The INMO In The Emergency Department Of The Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick Vote In Favour Of Industrial Action

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation in the Emergency Department of the Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action. Further meetings are taking place with the HSE today but it is anticipated that if there is no resolution to members’ difficulties this afternoon, notice of industrial action […]

INMO To Seek Assurances From Hse On Dedicated Beds For Emergency Admissions At Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick

Following a decision in August by the HSE in the Mid West region to further reduce the number of available acute beds at the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Limerick by 25, members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and SIPTU working in the Emergency Department have commenced a ballot for industrial action. This decision […]

A&E at Limerick Regional Hospital “will not close” says Minister

Health Minister James Reilly has given assurance to the city’s Fine Gael TD’s that there will be no night-time closures of A&E at the Mid Western Regional Hospital this summer. Constituents of both Minister Michael Noonan and Deputy Kieran O’Donnell have been deeply concerned by reports a shortage in junior doctors could see the doors […]

Mid Western Regional Hospital, Limerick – Staff Despairing Regarding Patient Care and Safety

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) are despairing regarding patient care and safety in the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Limerick. Imposed cruelty to sick children and adults continues at the hospital as a consequence of closed beds, shortage of nurses, the recruitment embargo and the unavailability of senior decision makers i.e. […]