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# Staff shortages

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2022
# teacher shortages
Career breaks for teachers may be suspended in response to staff shortages
Schools have come under pressure due to unfilled job vacancies and teacher shortages.
# Healthcare
NHS sets up 'war rooms' to cope with difficult winter
Britain’s health service is preparing for a winter of flu, Covid and record staff vacancies
# Schools
Schools under 'incredible pressure' due to staff shortages amid current Covid-19 wave
Staff absence in schools is reportedly “very high” due to the current wave of the virus.
Staff absence in schools is reportedly "very high" due to the current wave of the virus.
The Department of Education said its helpline remains open to support schools.
It said measures taken to support the supply of substitute teachers also remain in place.
# Staff shortages
Taoiseach hits out at 'secret recording' but confirms HSE hiring target likely won't be met
Micheál Martin was responding to claims of “fake targets” within the health service.
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# policy and economy
Ireland's economic squeeze: could staff shortages stifle growth?
The economy is still growing, but it is slowing down as capacity constraints limit expansion.
# Staff shortages
Staff shortages restricting opening hours at children’s urgent care centre at Connolly Hospital
Opening hours at the centre in Dublin are currently 10am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
# Staff shortages
Teachers to be rotated among schools under new substitute panel plan
Schools in North and South Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kildare and Meath are being targeted in the new initiative.
# Startups and tech
Crowley Carbon is building a developer team in Sofia because Dublin talent is too costly
The Bulgarian capital is providing the energy tech firm a more cost-effective way to scale.
# Closure
Minister insists no child will lose mental health place after 'indefensible' closure of beds
Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin urged the government to intervene.
# Industrial Action
Will there be a summer of strikes? There's trouble brewing on several fronts
2016 has not been a good year for industrial relations.
# understaffed
'You wouldn't have three drivers on five buses': Nurses at Our Lady of Lourdes hold day of action
All non-essential tasks will be stopped for the day in protest over staff shortages.
# Overcrowding
'It's absolute bedlam' - nurses' strike set to go ahead as 372 reported on hospital trolleys yesterday
The INMO believes there is “a tolerance of emergency department overcrowding”.
# midlands regional
'Overcrowded and clinically dangerous': Nurses criticise conditions at Mullingar hospital
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called on the HSE to immediately recruit more staff at MRHM.
# Psychiatric Care
TD slams 'chaotic' plan to move MORE patients into struggling psychiatric unit
Denis Naughten has demanded an immediate audit of staffing levels, saying it’s clear the current levels are inadequate.
# Psychiatric Care
HSE to meet with interest groups over 'mayhem' at Roscommon Hospital unit
Concerns have been raised about safety at the psychiatric care unit at the hospital following the recent death of a mother-of-two and a number of assaults on staff and patients.