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03/04/2009
Staff Refuse A&E Downgrading
Plans to end round-the-clock A&E services at Ennis and Nenagh hospitals have been rejected by staff.
The health service unions have decided not to co-operate with the decision to begin withdrawing the 24-hour A&E cover in Ennis and Nenagh from Monday.
Unions representing doctors, nurses and administrative workers say the move raises serious health and safety concerns.
The unions are also threatening to ballot for strike action following the collapse of talks on the matter at the Labour Relations Commission.
Workers at the hospital say they will report for duty as normal on Monday, but say they will refuse to co-operate with any changes to work practices.
The unions say they will ballot for industrial action if the HSE does not agree to return to the talks' table.
(DW/BMcC)
The health service unions have decided not to co-operate with the decision to begin withdrawing the 24-hour A&E cover in Ennis and Nenagh from Monday.
Unions representing doctors, nurses and administrative workers say the move raises serious health and safety concerns.
The unions are also threatening to ballot for strike action following the collapse of talks on the matter at the Labour Relations Commission.
Workers at the hospital say they will report for duty as normal on Monday, but say they will refuse to co-operate with any changes to work practices.
The unions say they will ballot for industrial action if the HSE does not agree to return to the talks' table.
(DW/BMcC)
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