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08/10/2015
St Vincent's Hospital Staff Vote For Industrial Action
Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) in the Emergency Department (ED) of St Vincent's University Hospital (SVUH), Dublin, are to hold a lunchtime protest on Monday 12 October.
The protest is in relation to overcrowding problems where more than 100 patients are regularly being accommodated in the Emergency Department which has a capacity to accommodate only 18 patients on trolleys.
A work to rule will also commence on Tuesday.
The INMO said patients being admitted to the SVUH ED have been subjected to unacceptable conditions where staff are unable to provide the most basic standard of privacy and dignity. This is due to a lack of available beds in the hospital. Patients are being managed on corridors and in inappropriate spaces, with consequent risk to their safety and health.
INMO Industrial Relations Officer, Philip McAnenly said: "Our members are totally frustrated at management’s failure to address this problem or even acknowledge the extent of the crisis caused by this overcrowding. Patient care and safety is being compromised on a daily basis, because of this intolerable overcrowding which totally prevents our members from providing the care they believe is necessary for their patients."
(CD/LM)
The protest is in relation to overcrowding problems where more than 100 patients are regularly being accommodated in the Emergency Department which has a capacity to accommodate only 18 patients on trolleys.
A work to rule will also commence on Tuesday.
The INMO said patients being admitted to the SVUH ED have been subjected to unacceptable conditions where staff are unable to provide the most basic standard of privacy and dignity. This is due to a lack of available beds in the hospital. Patients are being managed on corridors and in inappropriate spaces, with consequent risk to their safety and health.
INMO Industrial Relations Officer, Philip McAnenly said: "Our members are totally frustrated at management’s failure to address this problem or even acknowledge the extent of the crisis caused by this overcrowding. Patient care and safety is being compromised on a daily basis, because of this intolerable overcrowding which totally prevents our members from providing the care they believe is necessary for their patients."
(CD/LM)
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