The number of nurses who state that inadequate staffing numbers in their workplaces is putting patient safety at risk “needs to be a wake-up call”, nurses have told Health Minister Stephen Donnelly.
Karen McGowan, President of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) told delegates at the final day of the group’s annual conference in Kerry that the hospital system “sleep-walked into a summer trolley crisis”.
Figures released on Friday showed that 551 people were waiting for a bed in Irish hospitals.
