The review of the agreement to reduce Limerick and other hospitals’ Emergency Department overcrowding, chaired by the Workplace Relations Commission, and involving the INMO/HSE/Department of Health have been adjourned, after six hours of talks, and will reconvene at 12 noon on Wednesday.
At the discussions today, the INMO sought faster implementation, of all strands of the agreement, particularly the need to fill all vacant nursing posts to improve patient care in the overcrowded Emergency Departments across the country.
The talks, which will resume on Wednesday, will focus upon the need for management to confirm, without hesitation or any attempt to renegotiate, that they will implement the entire agreement including filling all nursing posts required to ensure safe patient care.
Speaking this evening INMO General Secretary, Liam Doran said: The INMO’s sole objective, when the talks reconvene, will be to secure cast iron confirmation that health service management will implement, in full, the agreement that they have signed up to.”
