COSTS CRISIS NURSES QUIT

Union warns health workers 'leaving in droves'

- NICOLA DONNELLY

NURSES and midwives are now leaving the healthcare system in droves as the cost of living crisis hits hard.

That’s according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation who say that many of their members are driving costly distances to work because they cannot afford a home to rent or buy near places of work.

Yesterday, an ESRI report into public workforce requirements in public acute hospitals recommended that we will need nearly 9,000 nurses and midwives in the next 13 years.

And now the INMO is calling on the Government to take recruitment and retention measures seriously by providing more attractive remuneration for nurses and midwives.