NI health trust issues 'urgent staff appeal' for nurses after days of pressure

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A health trust in Northern Ireland has issued an urgent staff appeal for off-duty staff members to work this week due to 'extreme pressure.'

A health trust in Northern Ireland has issued an urgent staff appeal for off-duty staff members to work this week due to "extreme pressure."

"If you are available to cover any shifts tonight or tomorrow please contact Duty Sister for Antrim Hospital through switch board 028 9442 4000 or Patient Flow Co-ordinator for Causeway Hospital CAU 028 7032 7032." Speaking after working a shift in an emergency department in Northern Ireland on bank holiday Monday, January 2, Danny Donnelly - who is an Alliance MLA working as a nurse occassionally to keep his registration active - likened the current situation to a "warzone."

 

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I think the trust seem to forget the staff also have family’s and lives too. Yet and all a lot of the management know how play the system of absence and sick leave! JOKE

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