# mental-health-services - Thursday 10 September, 2020
On World Suicide Prevention Day our reader details her struggles and experience of the Irish mental health services.
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# mental-health-services - Sunday 13 October, 2019
The Your Mental Health information line can be reached on 1800 742 444.
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# mental-health-services - Tuesday 23 July, 2019
Fianna Fáil TD James Browne said the overtime ban will lead to service disruption and cancellations for patients.
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# mental-health-services - Thursday 11 July, 2019
As of 7am this morning, psychiatric nurses have not been carrying out work beyond their contracted hours.
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# mental-health-services - Sunday 30 September, 2018
Close to €13 million was spent in the first three months of this year on agency staff.
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# mental-health-services - Friday 27 July, 2018
“There are plenty of people in the same situation as me. Many are even worse off. Don’t we deserve the chance to get better?”
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# mental-health-services - Saturday 30 September, 2017
Some €70 million in funding was announced over 2015-2016.
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# mental-health-services - Wednesday 27 September, 2017
There are 6,000 children waiting for primary care psychology appointments, the Dáil was told today.
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# mental-health-services - Sunday 10 September, 2017
It’s World Suicide Prevention Day today. Here’s what events are happening to mark it.
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# mental-health-services - Tuesday 5 September, 2017
A report was was commissioned into the services after allegations of sexual exploitation at one of its facilities.
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# mental-health-services - Wednesday 16 August, 2017
If we’re going to ask people to talk up, then we must have people to listen, writes Una Power.
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# mental-health-services - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
An emotive letter from a concerned mother was read in the Dail today by Independent TD Mick Wallace.
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# mental-health-services - Sunday 15 May, 2016
TheJournal.ie speaks to three young people living with mental health conditions.
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# mental-health-services - Wednesday 27 April, 2016
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck does a double take on some claims that went viral last night.
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# mental-health-services - Monday 18 April, 2016
The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland and Mental Health Reform have expressed their “dismay”.
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# mental-health-services - Wednesday 22 July, 2015
The state’s mental health watchdog has found training for mental health service providers was inadequate.
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# mental-health-services - Monday 15 June, 2015
There has been an office in place to administer the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive since February.
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# mental-health-services - Thursday 16 April, 2015
An area of University Hospital Waterford was found to have “no seating area, no dining facility and no walkabout space”.
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# mental-health-services - Saturday 29 November, 2014
The Mental Health Minister said occasionally wards would be full when beds were free.
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# mental-health-services - Friday 31 October, 2014
There was a vacancy in a children’s ward, but staff were unaware of it.
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# mental-health-services - Tuesday 7 October, 2014
The pop-up radio station is live all this week.
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# mental-health-services - Tuesday 30 September, 2014
A previous report found that 25% of deaths had not been reported correctly.
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# mental-health-services - Tuesday 24 June, 2014
The Inspectorate of Mental Health Services found some of the hostels “too big”.
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# mental-health-services - Wednesday 25 December, 2013
A controlled trial saw that a small investment led to big benefits for building confidence and reducing isolation.
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# mental-health-services - Thursday 18 October, 2012
The survey showed 34 per cent believe they had been avoided or shunned because of their mental health problems.
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# mental-health-services - Wednesday 25 April, 2012
Suicidology organisation’s president and TD does concede that high rate of suicide among unemployed linked to those with psychiatric illness being less likely to have a job.
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# mental-health-services - Friday 5 August, 2011
Locking people alone in rooms isn’t a treatment for mental illness – so why are we still doing it, asks Orla Barry of Mental Health Reform.
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# mental-health-services - Thursday 9 September, 2010
Highest portion budget deficit recorded at HSE West.
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# mental-health-services - Wednesday 11 August, 2010
THE PSYCHIATRIC NURSES’ ASSOCIATION (PNA) claims that mental health services in Ireland are in ‘freefall’ with 20% of nurses retiring from the HSE over the past two years.
The association says that almost 600 nurses retires last year many due to stress and assaults from patients. The association also says that a further 250 are set to retire next year.
PNA General Secretary Des Kavanagh said that levels of violence are unprecedented. ‘Bouncers’ and security firms were being hired to provide ‘secure care’ due to the lack of nurse.
Kavanagh told RTE that gardaí in riot year were called to a number of hospitals last year. Only last week he said a patient in Tallaght set fire to the unit, another patient broke through the ceiling in a unit and wrapped himself in electrical wire.
Kavangh said there are now a large number of vacancies in the HSE. Kavanagh said that an exemption in the recruitment moratorium in the HSE only allows for 100 new nurses to be hired despite the large exodus.
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