HEALTH bosses are heading to Ireland to tempt nurses and other medics to work in hospitals in Gwynedd.

Bosses are attended a jobs fair in Dublin on 23 April, plus others in Manchester and Glasgow in June, to fill positions in nursing, physiotherapy, pharmacy and doctors, so reducing the use of agency staff.

The team from Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board are also considering recruiting health staff from the Philippines, after previously attracting many from the country to work in north Wales.

They are seeking to fill posts in Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor, community hospitals, clinics and specialist units in Caernarfon, Pwllheli, Dolgellau and Tywyn.

Part of the team who headed to Ireland this week for the Health Sector Jobs Expo was Cork-born physiotherapist Maureen Bartley.

See the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd and Arfon/Dwyfor editions of the Cambrian News