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04/05/2016
Hundreds Of Nurses And Midwives To Attend INMO Conference
Hundreds of nurses and midwives are expected to attend the annual INMO delegate conference in Co Kerry today, 04 May.
Issues on pay, working hours and staffing levels are expected to top the agenda of the three-day event at the INEC in Killarney.
Around 350 members will call for pay restoration and a 37-hour working week in line with other professional heath service staff.
Debates will also be held on motions such as an immediate national summit with the Department of Health and HSE regarding the crisis in Primary and Social Care sectors, HSE to accept responsibility where care cannot be delivered in a timely manner in unsafe working environments and issues on hospital overcrowding.
INMO President, Claire Mahon, said: "We will be calling on the new government to initiate a national debate on health, which will look beyond the normal five year electoral horizon, to determine how we want our health service to serve us, both now and for the next 25 years.
"We will be calling for a universal healthcare service, funded by progressive taxation, which is efficient, effective and which treats everyone equally, with access being determined by need and not ability to pay. The recent findings, from the Irish Cancer Society, regarding access to diagnostics once again confirms the current inequalities which can influence life expectancy. This is immoral, wrong and must end.
"Over the next three days, delegates will set the agenda for the next year as they proceed with the continuing challenges which face members on the frontline and demand early restoration of pay, working hours and conditions."
(LM)
Issues on pay, working hours and staffing levels are expected to top the agenda of the three-day event at the INEC in Killarney.
Around 350 members will call for pay restoration and a 37-hour working week in line with other professional heath service staff.
Debates will also be held on motions such as an immediate national summit with the Department of Health and HSE regarding the crisis in Primary and Social Care sectors, HSE to accept responsibility where care cannot be delivered in a timely manner in unsafe working environments and issues on hospital overcrowding.
INMO President, Claire Mahon, said: "We will be calling on the new government to initiate a national debate on health, which will look beyond the normal five year electoral horizon, to determine how we want our health service to serve us, both now and for the next 25 years.
"We will be calling for a universal healthcare service, funded by progressive taxation, which is efficient, effective and which treats everyone equally, with access being determined by need and not ability to pay. The recent findings, from the Irish Cancer Society, regarding access to diagnostics once again confirms the current inequalities which can influence life expectancy. This is immoral, wrong and must end.
"Over the next three days, delegates will set the agenda for the next year as they proceed with the continuing challenges which face members on the frontline and demand early restoration of pay, working hours and conditions."
(LM)
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