It’s claimed the Midwest is in “real trouble” should nurses at University Hospital Limerick vote for industrial action.
Nurses union the INMO is balloting it’s members on the move, amid frustration over a refusal by the UL Hospitals Group to attend talks at the Workplace Relations Commission.
It comes after figures from the National Treatment Purchase Fund revealed 13,647 people were waiting 18 months or more to see a consultant at UHL at the end of July – up by a third since the COVID-19 outbreak began.
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Kilkee Fianna Fail Councillor Cillian Murphy, who’s a member of the HSE’s Regional Health Forum West, has sympathy for the nurses – and says they have been “taken for granted” throughout the pandemic.
