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NURSING STAFF AT Beaumont in Dublin have agreed to defer a work-to-rule action planned for next week.
INMO members at the hospital — one of the busiest in the country — voted unanimously in favour of industrial action at the height of the nationwide overcrowding crisis, earlier this month.
They said the Emergency Department was no longer safe for patients and staff.
That action, however, has now been deferred, following an agreement at at the Labour Relations Commission.
“Management have agreed to increase staffing levels in the department on both days and nights,” a statement from the union said.
They are to continue their efforts to secure additional community beds to address the problem of delayed discharges in the hospital and have agreed to a joint review of the hospital escalation policy.
INMO Industrial Relations Officer Lorraine Monaghan said it was a positive outcome for the union’s members at Beaumont ED.
“We are pleased that management have agreed to increase staffing levels in the interest of providing a safe level of care to patients in the Emergency Department.
All barriers to the recruitment of nurses must now be lifted.
She said the agreement would only last “if management’s proposals are implemented in a timely fashion”.
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The only way the health service will be radically overhauled is by a really good independent team of solicitors who start suing every time there is an error …
Money and bonuses are the only thing management understand – clean out their pot and then the problem gets sorted when they move on and real people get to fix the cronies mess !
How about someone with real balls who’s not afraid to stand up to the management lobby and increases the % of doctors and nurses to more than 20% of staff!
So the solution is to add additional staff to the crowded environment and we’re still going to have the same number of patients left languishing on trolleys for days on end!
Until the capacity issue can be fixed elsewhere in the hospital it’s probably no harm to provide enough staff in the A&E to treat the number of patients actually there (on beds, trolleys, chairs, etc) rather than just having the right ratio to cover just the ideal number of patients who should be there in cubicles and beds…
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