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Spending on agency staff in the HSE west area has increased by 21 per cent in the first quarter of this year when compared with the first quarter of 2012. In the first four months of 2013 HSE West spent €5.275 million employing agency staff compared to €4.354 million for the same period in 2012.

A Galway nurse, Mr James Geoghegan, has been elected a second vice president of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

A Longford man, with 140 previous convictions, was sentenced to spend a further seven months behind bars and disqualified from driving for 10 years for stealing a handbag and car keys from a nurse while being treated at UHG and taking off in the vehicle which was later stopped by eagle-eyed gardai in Kildare the following day.

A staff nurse at Galway University Hospitals has been awarded a prestigious learning bursary.

An information meeting about haemochromatosis, which is an iron overload disorder, will take place at in the Blue Theatre, GMIT, Dublin Road, Galway, on Monday March 14 at 7.30pm.

Members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) staged a lunchtime demonstration outside University Hospital Galway yesterday (Wednesday) in protest over Government plans to introduce “savage” pay cuts for fourth year student nurses.

Student nurses are threatening to strike next month over plans to introduce “savage” pay cuts which they say will amount to them working for “slave” wages.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has told the HSE that beds in hospitals in Mayo will be closed due to the release by the HSE of 376 pre-registration student nurses from the west region this week. Replacement qualified nurses have not replaced the student nurses, which means that without this replacement, beds and services will close.

A leading nursing union official has warned that the recruitment ban on frontline hospital staff, such as nurses and midwives, must be lifted and closed beds must be opened at University Hospital Galway to resolve the ongoing problems at the facility’s emergency department.

A 71-year-old retired farmer, who had beaten the odds by surviving major surgery, unexpectedly died from asphyxiation when a tracheostomy tube, which had been inserted in his throat to help him breathe, became dislodged after nurses at NUIG turned him on his side for a wash, an inquest in to his death heard last Thursday.