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THE IRISH NURSES and Midwives Organisation (INMO) is seeking urgent meetings with Ministers and the HSE over the latest HSE plans under the Haddington Road Agreement (HRA).
The INMO believes that the latest management proposal will “seriously compromise patient safety” if it is implemented, and so wants it withdrawn.
It said:
The HSE, while acknowledging that the INMO, and other health service unions, are fully compliant with their obligations under the Haddington Road Agreement, has now brought forward a new set of measures required to deliver further cash savings of €80 million.
HSE’s response
In response, the HSE said it is “simply seeking to implement the terms of the Haddington Road Agreement which the INMO signed up to”.
The HSE said “it is not correct to say that the HSE ‘is seeking an additional €80m’”, and that it is in fact seeking to achieve the original target set for it of €290m.
“This money has already been removed from the HSE’s vote allocation,” it said, adding:
The HSE requires the extra hours identified under the agreement to be used in the first instance to reduce the health sector pay bill as per the intention of the agreement. The HSE is extremely cognisant of the importance of patient safety and considers it a priority above all else.
Concerns
The INMO said that the latest proposals, which were presented to unions last week, are all focused on the frontline and include:
The INMO described the latest plan as “the most damaging set of measures brought forward in recent years”. In response, it has sought immediate meetings with the three Ministers in the Department of Health to demand the plans be withdrawn.
It is also seeking a meeting with the Oireachtas Health Committee to detail its concerns at the impact of these measures on patient safety, and a meeting with the Director of Patient Safety and Quality in the HSE.
In addition, the INMO will be seeking discussions with patient support groups and other professional groups/representatives on the plan.
The INMO will also be advising all of its members “that they are fully compliant with their obligations under Haddington Road”.
We shall also advise them that they cannot agree, under their Code of Conduct, to any changes/initiatives which they believe will negatively impact upon patient care and safety and the ability of nurses and midwives to deliver safe care through safe practice.
Cash savings
INMO General Secretary Liam Doran said that these proposals are “totally driven by the demand for the health service to deliver further cash savings”.
He said they have not been subject to a patient safety audit or risk assessment and “there is no question” but that these measures will “gravely compromise patient safety and the ability of nurses and midwives to deliver safe care through safe practice”.
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Hopefully this guy will give MS the kick it needs.
This guy is just what Microsoft needed a young forward thinking dynamic guy.
Best of luck to him
Could it be that microsoft are actually going separate their entertainment products from their core services?
Steve jobs’s non union affiliated indian counterpart
@Miller.. That’s a serious chip your carrying! Microsoft have been fantastic for this country. They have been a large employer for near 30 years, and have stuck with Ireland through everything. Whether full time, contract, part time etc they are all decent paying jobs. They have invested massively back into the community and the education sector. Of all the large US employers in Ireland there ain’t many bad words can be said about Microsoft. BTW.. Don’t work there, but have made a very good career around the products they produce.
New packaging, same turd underneath. MS has a toxic culture, treats its fulltime staff like sh$t, and generally gets rid of older workers and replaces them with ‘cheap’ new ones under the guise of ‘we’re hiring’. MS Ireland transacts revenue of circa 30 billion but more than half the staff to process this are contract/temporary staff given low wages through a 3rd party and have no health, life, pension of any other benefit for helping to make the executives rich and pay little effective tax in Ireland through phoney royalty and licience agreements with zero tax states
@Miller. In the ESB article thread you castigate Brendan Ogle for standing up to government and fighting for his members. Here you rant on about working conditions in MS. Make your mind up man.
Looks like Steve Jobs to me
He’s a bit too lively
I think they are going to entwine their products closer than ever.
Has Mandela risen from the crypt?
Standards compliance needs to be their first stop
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