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In order to practice, all nurses must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board. The Board was established by the Nurses and Midwives Act, 2011. In addition to the formation of the NMBI, the Act also made provision for the separation of nursing and midwifery as separate professions. The NMBI maintains two registers: [2]
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is the largest Irish professional union for nurses and midwives with 40,000 members. It was founded in 1919 after World War I, when a group of Irish nurses and midwives had a meeting in Dublin to discuss the issues in promoting an improvement in wages and advocating for a standard to be set for the conduction of their duties in the medical profession.
It has a statutory obligation to protect the public and the integrity of the practice of the professions of nursing and midwifery. It performs its functions in the public interest under the Nurses Act, 1985 and the Nurses and Midwives Ac, 2011. [1] [2] As the Regulator for the professions of nursing and midwifery, NMBI: [3]
The Health and Social Care service was created by the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1948 after the Beveridge Report.. From 1948 to 1974, hospitals in the region were managed by the Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority and hospital management committees, and then transferred to four health and social services boards, along with responsibility for social care.
A midwife (pl.: midwives) is a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth, a specialisation known as midwifery.. The education and training for a midwife concentrates extensively on the care of women throughout their lifespan; concentrating on being experts in what is normal and identifying conditions that need further evaluation.
Its functions are similar to those of the Health and Safety Executive in the rest of the United Kingdom. [1] The HSENI employs approximately 105 staff. [2] It was founded as the Health and Safety Agency for Northern Ireland when the provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 were extended to the province in 1978. [3]
The HSE adopted a regional structure (HSE Dublin Mid-Leinster, HSE Dublin North East, HSE South and HSE West). [3] A new grouping of hospitals was announced by the Irish Minister for Health, Dr. James Reilly TD, in May 2013, as part of a restructure of Irish public hospitals and a goal of delivering better patient care: [4] [5]
Bernard Gloster (born 1965/1966) is an Irish public servant who has served as chief executive of the Health Service Executive since March 2023. He previously was chief executive of Tusla from 2019 to 2023, and before that chief officer of the HSE Mid-West.