A recruitment campaign for more nursing staff for Clifden has yielded just one new nurse – who won’t be available to work until September 2024. All...
Four nurses resigned their posts at University Hospital Galway last week in protest at the ‘unsafe’ conditions for staff and patients in its temporary Emergency Department....
Exhausted Galway nurses have warned hospital managers they will not tolerate a return to the ‘bad old days’ of trolley overcrowding on wards and in the...
Striking members of the Irish Nurses’ and Midwives’ Organisation (INMO) braved the sub-zero temperatures yesterday morning as they took to picket lines across the county –...
‘Dangerous and frightening’ conditions in Galway’s public hospitals – including daily Emergency Department overcrowding – prompted local nurses to vote overwhelmingly for strike action for more...
A national study at NUI Galway will examine how burnout is affecting nurses. The study involving up to 1,000 nurses is particularly focusing on how burnout...
Nurses trained in Galway are being lured to England and Australia with the promise of higher wages, and better terms and conditions. Despite the international competition,...
Some 17 surgeries were postponed at Galway city’s main public hospital on Tuesday, despite nurses’ deferring planned strike action at the West’s largest Emergency Department. Management at...
