“In our case we don’t have a system of guarantees, what we have is a budget which is then handed to the HSE and the HSE decide what they use the money for. We’re saying the HSE’s priority must be, by law, making sure that we have safe staffing levels.
Almost two-thirds, just short of 66 per cent, said patients are being put at risk “very often or always”, with 85 per cent saying that the number of staff and mix of skills available where they worked did not adequately meet patient needs. Ahead of his visit to the INMO conference on Friday, Mr Donnelly announced €25 million which, it was said, would fund 854 additional nursing posts and “implement the Framework for Safe Nurse Staffing and Skillmix in all acute hospitals nationally”.
Mr Donnelly said the announcement followed record levels of recruitment into our health service, and said “we will now move to implement this policy in all acute hospitals this year”. HSE chief executive Bernard Gloster, who will address the INMO delegates on Thursday morning, described the announcement as “a very significant development,” that would “result in a significant improvement in the patient care that we provide, and in the experience of the staff providing that care”.
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