The INMO (Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation) are set to strike on Wednesday, 30 January.
The industrial action will see nurses on-hand to provide essential, life-saving care only.
While talks between the INMO and the HSE have continued, it appears that no resolution will be reached before the day of the planned strike. While the strike will affect hospitals, it will also have an impact on HSE-run community services.
Today, the HSE issued public advice for those who may end up affected by the strike, confirming which community services will and won’t be operational across the day.
According to the HSE, patients will still have access to palliative care, planned essential services at home, a limited new born screening service and “long term care of older people and people with intellectual disability.”
However, services to be cancelled include: all public day centres for older people and people with disabilities where nurses are employed, all routine community nursing services and Health Centre clinics where nurses participate and all day hospitals or Out-Patient appointments in Community Nursing Hospitals and Units.
If no resolution is reached beyond that, the INMO has also made it clear that it will strike on as many as six different dates across February.
The first nurses strike will last for 24 hours.
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