# midwives - Monday 13 October, 2014
# Pay Dispute
# Pay Dispute
The strike follows a rejection by the government of an across-the-board pay rise for workers.
# midwives - Monday 29 September, 2014
# Practice Makes Perfect
# Practice Makes Perfect
The centre will recreate real life clinical scenarios using simulation models.
# Midlands Regional
# Midlands Regional
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called on the HSE to immediately recruit more staff at MRHM.
# midwives - Thursday 26 June, 2014
# Turn Off The Red Light
# Turn Off The Red Light
Twelve months have now passed since a Dáil committee recommended new laws that would see buyers of sex punished.
# midwives - Sunday 18 May, 2014
# Haddington Road
# Haddington Road
The INMO says the savings are being sought – the HSE says this is incorrect.
# midwives - Thursday 6 March, 2014
# Shortfall
# Shortfall
Portlaoise, Mullingar and the Rotunda have the biggest shortage of midwives.
# midwives - Friday 31 January, 2014
# Further Investigation
# Further Investigation
Last night’s Prime Time showed how four babies died in 6 years at Midlands Regional Hospital in Portlaoise.
# midwives - Wednesday 18 September, 2013
# Doctors
# Doctors
Liam Doran of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation said that the strike will impact on routine admissions and outpatient appointments.
# midwives - Wednesday 4 September, 2013
# Midwives
# Midwives
TV3 has brought its camera crew to Holles Street.
# midwives - Wednesday 21 August, 2013
# Giving Birth
# Giving Birth
Women who had midwife-led care had fewer epidurals, fewer episiotomies and were less likely to give birth early.
# midwives - Saturday 3 August, 2013
# Prime Numbers
# Prime Numbers
Plus: How many people have been late paying their rent in the past year?
# midwives - Tuesday 16 July, 2013
# Minimum Wage
# Minimum Wage
The INMO said that interns are being asked to increase their hours while only being paid 50 per cent of the staff rate of pay.
# midwives - Saturday 11 May, 2013
# INMO
# INMO
Liam Doran says he doesn’t pay attention to newspaper commentary suggesting he regularly threatens industrial action.
# midwives - Friday 10 May, 2013
# INMO
# INMO
The INMO is to present the health minister with the findings of its trolley and ward watch initiatives, which show an increase in the amount of people on trolleys.
# midwives - Thursday 9 May, 2013
# Nurses
# Nurses
The INMO annual conference is taking place in Letterkenny today and the motion discusses the option of industrial action if the government imposes pay cuts.
# midwives - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
# Conference
# Conference
The conference begins this morning, and Minister for Health James Reilly will speak to those gathered tomorrow.
# midwives - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
# Hospitals
# Hospitals
The INMO is to hold its annual conference tomorrow, and its general secretary said he expects “lively debate” at the event.
# midwives - Monday 18 March, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
Last summer, the Minister for Health endorsed home birth and said more women should be offered the choice of giving birth at home – but new HSE guidelines will have the opposite effect, Eva-Louise Goussot writes.
# midwives - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
# Pay Cuts
# Pay Cuts
The association said that the government’s approach is “provocative” and “unrealistic”.
# midwives - Tuesday 8 January, 2013
# Pay
# Pay
SIPTU has written to the Minister for Health asking him to stop the HSE plan to recruit new nurses on lower salaries
# midwives - Monday 7 January, 2013
# HSE
# HSE
The general secretary of the INMO hopes that a graduate boycott of the jobs on offer at the reduced rate will ‘force the HSE back to the table’.
# midwives - Thursday 20 December, 2012
# Nursing
# Nursing
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says graduate nurses should not have to work for 80 per cent of the usual wage.
# midwives - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
# HSE
# HSE
The recruitment drive could save as much as €10 million by reducing the reliance on agency workers and overtime, the HSE said this evening.
# midwives - Monday 29 October, 2012
# Read Me
# Read Me
Some things you can learn from books, writes mother of three Deborah McCarthy – but not these.
# midwives - Wednesday 22 August, 2012
# Cuts
# Cuts
The HSE has produced a report which proposes getting rid of all agency staff in three hospitals – but the plan has drawn harsh criticism.
# midwives - Thursday 28 June, 2012
# Opinion
# Opinion
Why shouldn’t women have the choice of giving birth at home? The belief that all mothers need to be in hospital is an urban myth, writes Eva-Louise Goussot.
# midwives - Tuesday 12 June, 2012
# Bahrain
# Bahrain
The members of the INMO have joined a vigil to highlight the trial of health professionals in Bahrain, and are calling for the release of their fellow professionals.
# midwives - Saturday 12 May, 2012
# Health
# Health
James Reilly also told delegates at the INMO conference that nurses can do more of the work that doctors have done historically.
# midwives - Friday 11 May, 2012
# Health
# Health
James Reilly will address the conference as nurses and midwives conclude their annual conference in Killarney today.
# midwives - Tuesday 8 May, 2012
# Health
# Health
That’s according to members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, who will hold their 93rd annual conference this week. The theme for the event this year is ‘Safe care – safe practice – no compromise’.
# midwives - Thursday 26 January, 2012
# Midwives
# Midwives
Warnings that an exodus of midwives from the HSE will lead to deaths have been branded ‘outrageous’ by Enda Kenny.
# midwives - Saturday 23 July, 2011
# Maternity
# Maternity
It’s claimed that the scheme is being ‘quietly’ withdrawn from Wexford General Hospital. Domino allows for home births and a midwife-led antenatal clinic.
# midwives - Wednesday 16 February, 2011
# Student Nurses
# Student Nurses
Government plans would see payments to final year nursing students in respect of time on placement phased out.
# midwives - Wednesday 2 February, 2011
# Health
# Health
Psychiatric nurses have joined the campaign aimed at reversing pay cuts to student nurses who are required to work full time as part of their training.
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