'So obsessed with publicity': Outgoing Labour minister's parting shot at Leo
Kathleen Lynch has given a revealing interview in which she criticises the Health Minister.
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Kathleen Lynch has given a revealing interview in which she criticises the Health Minister.
Social Care Minister Kathleen Lynch issued a statement today addressing allegations of physical and sexual abuse at a state-backed foster home.
The INMO’s announcement comes on foot of an incident at the mental health unit of University Hospital Galway on Friday.
The announcement has been made by Health Minister Leo Varadkar.
Numerous shortcomings were found by a Hiqa report published yesterday.
The state’s mental health watchdog has found training for mental health service providers was inadequate.
Concerns have been raised about the possible closure of the Cleary Centre in Donegal Town.
The unit at St Patricks, Kilkenny, which houses 28 people, has been de-registered for up to 28 days over a number of concerns.
The level of uptake has been described as “phenomenal”.
The government wants to reduce suicide and self-harm by 10% over the next five years.
Patients will be transferred to a larger, more modern, hospital in Portrane.
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The women will be eligible for a range of health services from the start of July.
Ruth Coppinger wants the State to stop confiscating the tablets.
Hospital waiting lists and overcrowding are among the biggest problems facing the health service.
Kathleen Lynch has been paid undisclosed damages.
Minister Kathleen Lynch said an extra €30 million is needed.
“It’s not that the system isn’t sympathetic, it is – who wouldn’t be?”
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The Mental Health Minister said occasionally wards would be full when beds were free.
The Health Minister also ruled out a General Election in 2015.
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€35 million is being ring-fenced for the area as part of Budget 2015, but organisations are concerned that’s still €15 million short of what should be spent.
There are concerns over the growing quantity of these drugs being illegally sold.
McNulty withdrew from the Seanad by-election yesterday.
Planning permission for the project could be decided upon in the first half of next year.
Groups representing carers, elderly people and those on low incomes have called for a reduction but that’s not likely to happen in the next Budget.
Dublin City Council and Age Friendly Ireland have teamed up to try and improve the lives of Dublin’s elderly.
Today is World Suicide Awareness Day.
The waiting time for funding increased from six to 12 weeks, while the number of people on the list rose by 500.
The new Gaeltacht minister isn’t fluent in Irish and the de-prioritisation of older people’s issues has been rubber-stamped; whole sections of society are being disenfranchised.
It comes after concerns over a change in her title today.
Speaking in the Dáil last week, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said that certain laws need to be updated before Ireland can ratify the EU Convention on domestic violence.
The Psychiatric Nurses Association say that the government’s roadmap for improvements in the sector needs to be overhauled.
The tool offers immediate access to a lower-intensity intervention and is implemented through healthcare professionals.
Nine psychiatrists have withdrawn confidence in the clinical management of the mental health service in the Carlow-Kilkenny-South Tipperary.
John Whelan has said the party’s leadership has become out-of-touch with voters and arrogant.
The HSA has been called in to examine the unit at UCHG after the death of a patient last week.
Kathleen Lynch was responding to allegations from Fianna Fáil TD Colm Keaveney, who yesterday expressed alarm at the “rapid deterioration” of services at University Hospital Galway.
In 2011, 25 out of 332 programmes of ECT were given to patients who were either unwilling or unable to give consent to the treatment.