Nursing graduates in Tullamore and Mullingar to be offered permanent positions

The HSE has confirmed to Independent TD Carol Nolan that correspondence has issued advising that all graduates on a nursing panel for a post’s in the Midland Regional Hospital Tullamore and the Regional Hospital Mullingar will be offered a permanent position once the recruitment process has been completed.

Deputy Nolan raised the matter with the HSE following numerous representations made to her regarding graduate nurses whose base hospitals in Tullamore and Mullingar had recently offered/advertised new staff positions only to subsequently withdraw the positions offered to them.

Deputy Nolan said that in the case of Regional Hospital Mullingar she was given to understand that the Hospital advertised and carried out interviews only to inform applicants at the start of August that they were no longer hiring new nursing graduates due to budget constraints.

In the case of Regional Hospital Tullamore Deputy Nolan was told that it too had advertised, carried out interviews and offered positions only to then inform applicants that it might not be possible to hire everyone who had already accepted an offered position:

“I am delighted that this issue has been resolved and that both Tullamore and Mullingar will now benefit from the recruitment of our excellent and professional nursing graduates,” said Deputy Nolan.

“Clearly the budgeting issue has now been addressed and I welcomed that because, as we all know, our hospitals are crying out for more medical staff.”

“Hopefully, we can see a lot more of this commonsense approach going forward. We absolutely must do everything that we can to stop the professional brain drain from our health service and the forced emigration of our young highly qualified graduates,” concluded Deputy Nolan.